Featured Activity
Learn about the time when Laredo was its own country. Seven flags have flown over the quaint, one-story building. Whitewashed plaster covers two-feet-thick walls of rock and adobe. Now a museum, building served as capitol of the unsuccessful Republic of the Rio Grande. Displays of guns, saddles, household goods of frontier homes with emphasis on period of Rio Grande Republic, 1839–41. Webb County Heritage Foundation. Open Tue.–Sat. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Admission fee. 1000 Zaragosa St. , just south of San Agustîn Plaza. 956/727-3480. www.webbheritage.org/riograndehistory.htm.
City: Laredo
Region: South Texas Plains
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