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Part of Alamo Plaza Historic District 131: San Antonio Water Works Pump Station No. 2: San Antonio Water Works Pump Station No. 2: August 21, 1981 : Brackenridge Park: San Antonio: Part of Brackenridge Park 132
The dam and Little Rock Reservoir are owned by the Palmdale Water District and Littlerock Creek Irrigation District and are used for agricultural and municipal water supply and flood control. [ 3 ] The dam is 124 ft (38 m) high from foundation to crest and spans 576 ft (176 m) across the canyon, forming a reservoir with a capacity of 3,700 acre ...
Looking down at the river at Market and Alamo streets. The colorful umbrellas mark Casa Rio, the first restaurant built on the water in 1946. In September 1921, a disastrous flood along the San Antonio River took 51 lives, with an additional 23 people reported missing. [1]
Typical Monte Vista Historic District street sign. Bounded by Hildebrand Avenue to the north, Broadway to the east, I-10 to the west and I-35 to the south, Eastside of San Antonio's Historic District features an assortment of neighborhoods ranging from the working class Beacon Hill to the up-and-coming Five Points to the established upper middle class Monte Vista.
The San Antonio Downtown and River Walk Historic District is an amalgamation of residential and commercial sites. 197 contributing properties and 50 non-contributing properties were taken into consideration when evaluating the area for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and also for the Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks (RTHL). The ...
San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-222-5. Bremer, Thomas S. (2004). Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-5580-5. Chambers, William T. (1940). "San Antonio, Texas". Economic Geography.
Edward Steves (1829–90) was a San Antonio city alderman who had relocated to Texas from his native Germany. He and his wife Johanna maintained a family home on rural acreage in Kendall County. He ran the successful Steves Lumber Company [11] in San Antonio from 1866 to 1877. Steves was a civic leader in the San Antonio business community ...
The King William Historic District of San Antonio, Texas was listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bexar County, Texas on January 20, 1972. [1] The area was originally used as farm acreage by the Spanish priests of the Misión San Antonio de Valero, and eventually parceled off for the local indigenous peoples of the area. [2]