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Rio Vista Bracero Reception Center is a historic farm site in Socorro, Texas, [1] that served orphaned children and homeless adults of mostly Hispanic descent. The farm was created in 1915, as the El Paso Poor Farm. During the Great Depression the population grew and a variety of public welfare programs became available to farm residents.
The Bracero Monument by Dan Medina is installed in Los Angeles, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 19-foot-tall monument features a bronze sculpture of a Mexican migrant and his family (wife and son). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Bracero refers to the Bracero Program .
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Get a taste of Palermo, Italy, with an insider market tour, street food, and sweets in a secluded convent.
A freshwater lake developed in the basin about 400,000 – 500,000 years ago near the Calico Archaeological Site. The lake was present until the late Pleistocene. The last high stand of Lake Manix was at 543 m (1,781 ft) and had a surface area of approximately 236 km 2 (91 sq mi). This lake drained, probably catastrophically, approximately ...
The Western Science Center (WSC), formerly the Western Center for Archaeology & Paleontology, [1] is a museum located near Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet, California.The WSC is home to a large collection of Native American artifacts and Ice Age fossils that were unearthed at Diamond Valley Lake, including "Max", the largest mastodon found in the western United States, and "Xena", a Columbian ...
The Center for American Archeology, or CAA, is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) research and education institution located in Kampsville, Illinois, USA, near the Illinois River. It is dedicated to the exploration of the culture of prehistoric Native Americans and, to a lesser extent, the European settlers who supplanted them.
Xochicalco (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ʃot͡ʃiˈkaɬko] ⓘ) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Miacatlán in the western part of the Mexican state of Morelos.The name Xochicalco may be translated from Nahuatl as "in the house of Flowers".