Get-Aways
Fort Concho Natl. Historic Landmark in San Angelo, Texas: An overnight experience and tour
- Item Number
- 178
- Estimated Value
- 175 USD
- Sold
- 110 USD to jungmeyer
- Number of Bids
- 10 - Bid History
Item Description
An overnight stay for two persons in the commanders quarters, (Officers' Quarters 1), a fully restored 1870s building with modern comforts, and a private tour of the historic Fort Concho landmark.
Once home to the commanders of the post, Officers' Quarters 1 has been fully restored and adapted as guest quarters with the best of the 1870s and the 21st century. Modern heating and cooling, three bedrooms, showers/bathrooms, full kitchen, dining room, and parlor room. This offer is for a one-room rental, two person occupancy.
Fort Concho represents one of the best preserved frontier forts west of the Mississippi with twenty-four restored buildings on forty acres, just south of downtown San Angelo, Texas. Besides museum exhibits and living history programs, Fort Concho hosts a variety of community activities. It is a wonderful example of US military posts built to establish law and order in West Texas as settlers began to move in after the Civil War.
Item Special Note
Building and grounds are handicapped accessible. At a mutually agreed upon date and subject to availability. Valid for 2 people. Not available from mid November-mid-December, 2009. Expires December 31, 2009.
To explore this restored military fort and living history site, go to http://www.fortconcho.com
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