I've been to the stockade a couple of times as a kid, it's maybe 10
miles from where I grew up. Once rode our bikes out there one summer with
a group and another time with a friend. It says it is fenced off because it
is in dangerous shape. My biggest worry when I was there was rattle snakes.
It said they are working on it for it's bicentennial next year.
I did a search for it and found some interesting things. I didn't know
that it wasn't the original stockade but a recreation built in 1952,
although I had thought it was weird it had a concrete foundation. I didn't
know Pike was exploring the southern portion of the Louisiana purchase and
was lost in what was then Mexican Territory, following the Rio Grand which
he thought was the Red River he and his men were arrested.
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If the information on Google maps is right the recreation is about a mile
south of the original site which was prone to flooding by the Rio Grande
which I gathered led to the destruction of the original site.
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