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El Paso del Norte (the present day Ciudad Juárez), was founded on the south bank of the Río Bravo del Norte, in 1659 by Fray García de San Francisco. Agriculture flourished thanks to the complex irrigation system built by the Spanish and Indians, including a massive earthen dam.
The original and defunct El Paso Herald Post was also founded in 1881 as the El Paso Herald, which then merged with the El Paso Post in 1931. The paper was shut down in 1997. El Paso Matters, a non-profit online newspaper, was founded in 2019. [212] Weekly and niche magazines: El Paso Inc [213] El Paso Scene [214] La Polaka [215] Jrznoticias [216]
1888 - El Paso del Norte renamed "Juárez" in honor of Benito Juárez. [1] leaving El Paso, Texas the sole El Paso. 1889 – McGinty Club active. [9] 1890 – Population: 10,338. 1892 – Santa Fe Street bridge built. [6] 1895 – El Paso Public Library founded. [10] 1898 - Zion Lutheran Church is established. It is the first Lutheran Church in ...
Originally founded as Villanueva de La Serena, the city was destroyed completely in a native uprising in 1549 and re-founded the same year as San Bartolomé de La Serena; its founding date is for this reason sometimes listed as 1549. Second oldest European city in Chile. 1545: Potosí: Potosí: Bolivia: 1545 San Juan de los Remedios: Villa ...
National Register of Historic Places in El Paso County, Texas (44 P) Pages in category "History of El Paso, Texas" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Many colonias sprouted up in the area before the Lower Valley Water District was established and before El Paso County imposed development codes.
This week we launched a special report, "'La pérdida - The loss’: Deadly disaster at El Paso, Juárez border." The series, the culmination of a year of reporting, tells the human story of the ...
Paso Robles, California (shortened version of El Paso de Robles, which means "pass of the oaks"; named for the abundance of oak trees in the area) Penalosa, Kansas (called so since 1887, in honor of a Spanish explorer, Peñalosa) Peñasco, New Mexico ("boulder") Peñitas, Texas, a city in Hidalgo County