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Mifflin Kenedy Warehouse

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In 1850, Richard King, Mifflin Kenedy, and two others formed a steamboat company to carry cargo on the Rio Grande. The company achieved almost total control of the shipping along the Rio Grande River during the 1850s until 1874 when the company was dissolved. The Mifflin Kenedy Warehouse, where the company stored cotton and other goods, is a last reminder of this era that included the Civil War.

The Mifflin Kenedy warehouse was built in 1854, near the steamboat landing on Water Street, Rio Grande City which later became an official Confederate port of entry, customhouse and major terminus of the cotton route to Mexico. The cotton bales would arrive at river ports such as Rio Grande City in wagons and oxcarts, were warehoused, and then ferried to Mexican river ports and transported to neutral ships in the Gulf of Mexico. The ships would bring back leather, clothing, blankets, guns, ammunition, and medical supplies. In 1864 the 1st U.S. Texas Cavalry reoccupied Ringgold Barracks and seized the cotton that was stored in this warehouse.

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Richard King, Mifflin Kenedy, y dos personas más fundaron en 1850 una naviera de vapores para el transporte de mercancías por el Río Grande. La empresa alcanzó casi el monopolio de las actividades de transporte en el río entre la década de 1850 y 1874, año en que se disolviera la compañía. El almacén de Mifflin Kenedy, donde almacenaba su algodón y otras mercancías, es la última reliquia de aquellos años que también abarcaron el periodo de la Guerra de Secesión estadounidense.

Construido en 1854, el almacén se levantaba cerca del embarcadero de vapores en la calle Water Street, en Río Grande City, lugar que acabó siendo un punto oficial de embarque y arribo internacional de la Confederación. Las balas de algodón llegaban en carros y tiros de bueyes a puertos fluviales como el de Río Grande City, donde se almacenaban y se transportaban río a través en embarcaciones a los puertos mexicanos en la ribera opuesta, y desde allí en buques neutrales hasta el Golfo de México. En 1864, el Primero de Caballería de los EE. UU. reocupó los barracones de Ringgold y se incautó del algodón almacenado en este establecimiento.

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Details

Location: 207 W. Water St. Rio Grande City, Texas.

Access: The building is open during week, however the façade of the building can be viewed at any time.

Contact: Ms. Elisa Beas. City Administrator 956 487 0762.

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Mifflin Kenedy
Modern-day view of Mifflin Kenedy Warehouse.
Courtesy of Maria Elia Ramos.
 
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