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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM283U_main-plaza-plaza-de-las-islas_San-Antonio-TX.html
Spanish urban planners in the New World knew how to create a vibrant community: its two interconnected building blocks were a cathedral and a plaza. This spatial structure compelled the citizens of New Spain to revolve around a civic center, timi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM283S_ursuline-academy-augusta-street-bridge_San-Antonio-TX.html
San Antonians had few places to educate their children before 1851 when Catholic Bishop Jean Marie Odin recruited members of the Order of St. Ursula to start a school for girls on the river at the northern edge of town. The school grew quickly, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQ4_spanish-and-mexican-land-grants-historical_San-Antonio-TX.html
The Texas A&M University-San Antonio Campus was built on land that once was conveyed by Spanish and Mexican land grants and traversed by several branches of El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera del Oriente (also known as El Camino Real de los Tejas Nat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M4Y_the-dawson-massacre_San-Antonio-TX.html
Occurred in this vicinity on September 18, 1842 when Captain Nicholas Mosby Dawson and 53 men from La Grange, in attempting to join Captain Mathew Caldwell (Old Paint) and his company of Texas volunteers during the Battle of the Salado, were surro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M4X_dawson-massacre-memorial_San-Antonio-TX.html
Dawson MassacreMemorial September 18, 1842 Erected by Alamo Mission Chapter Daughters of The Republic of Texas
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LVD_the-pershing-chinese_San-Antonio-TX.html
In March, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson ordered General John J. Pershing to lead an expedition into Mexico to punish Pancho Villa, the Mexican revolutionary whose troops crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LVC_tether-wall_San-Antonio-TX.html
This brick wall, built circa 1890, replaced the original wood fence which enclosed the corrals, stables and wagon parks for the quartermaster depot in The Quandrangle. The two nearby buildings served as blacksmith and wheelright shops.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KCL_herrera-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
The Curbier Family, which was granted land in La Villita after the 1819 flood, sold this property in 1854 to Rafael Herrera, husband of their daughter Vicenta. Herrera built this house and owned it until 1897. The property, which extended back to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KCK_kitchen_San-Antonio-TX.html
As early as 1877, this land was the site of an adobe residence where Mrs. Kate Womble operated a boarding house popular among travelers to San Antonio. The house appeared on the 1873 city map. The Sanborn Insurance maps show it as late as 1904. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KCG_tejada-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
This house appears on the 1873 city map and was probably built by Jose and Refugia Duran Tejada, who bought the land in 1855 from Concepcion Ruiz. Ernest Hessler, who already owned the two houses to the west on Presa Street, bought the property in…
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