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New Spain viceroy Bernardo de Galvez. After its founding, El Copano was a common port used by pirates and smugglers. [2] In 1785, it was officially opened by New Spain Viceroy Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez for entry into Texas. Around this time, a customshouse and freshwater tank were all that could be found on land, but the ...
El Camino Real de los Tejas routes in Spanish Texas. Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, established the corridor for what became El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera in multiple expeditions to East Texas between 1686 and 1690 to find and destroy a French fort near Lavaca Bay, [2] established by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on what de León considered to be Spanish lands.
One such case was the case of Paulino Serda of Edinburg, a city in south Texas. Paulino Serda was killed by Texas Rangers on his ranch in 1915 during questioning. [9] In September of that same year, Texas Rangers encountered Jesus Bazan and Antonio Longoria riding their horses near their ranch in Edinburg, Texas. [10]
Dolores was established as a Mexican village called San José in 1860. In 1882, the Cannel Coal Company opened mines along the Rio Grande. Cannel Coal Company built the Rio Grande and Eagle Pass Railroad to ship coal from the town and renamed the San José village after its company president's daughter Dolores.
Las Milpas (Spanish: "the milpas ") is a colonia in the City of Pharr, in central Hidalgo County, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. It was previously an unincorporated area . Las Milpas is located off of U.S. Highway 281 , 5 miles (8.0 km) south of the city center of Pharr, [ 1 ] and between McAllen and the United States-Mexico border .
The only portion of SH 1 that existed after September 26, 1939, was a short spur located in Dallas. Texas State Highway 1 was officially cancelled on August 20, 1952. Due to the highway's historic value, a highway cannot be designated as State Highway 1 unless by the order of TxDOT Executive Director or by the Transportation Commission. [3]
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1910 and 1919. ... Jose Buenrostro: Hispanic: 25: M: 19-May-1916: Murder 377: Clarence ...
1347623 [1] Spanish Camp is an unincorporated community in north central Wharton County , in the U.S. state of Texas . The community is located between Egypt and Hungerford along Farm to Market Road 1161 , (FM 1161) near its intersection with Farm to Market Road 640 (FM 640).