Laredo Jr. College and Laredo State Univ.
Festivities strengthen friendly ties between Texas and Mexico.
It was originally among series of border forts guarding against Indian attacks and was base for border patrol. Laredo Junior College and Laredo State Univ. The old guardhouse, chapel, warehouse and commissary remain. Foot of Washington St. on banks of Rio Grande. Picnic facilities, camping, rest rooms, dump station, boat ramp, and fishing pier.