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Main and Military Plazas Historic District is a historic district in San Antonio, Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with a boundary increase in 2019. [1] The area encompasses the old Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, [2] where the Spanish troops and the military governor of Texas were stationed. [3]
Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y Sánchez (October 3, 1788 – November 15, 1836), known simply as Lorenzo de Zavala, was a Mexican and later Tejano physician, politician, diplomat and author. [1]
The Spanish Governor's Palace is a historic adobe from the Spanish Texas period located in Downtown San Antonio.. It is the last visible trace of the 18th-century colonial Presidio San Antonio de Béxar complex, and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocratic 18th-century Spanish Colonial in−town residence. [4]
San Antonio (/ ˌ s æ n æ n ˈ t oʊ n i oʊ / SAN an-TOH-nee-oh; Spanish for "Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 U.S. census. [12]
Cantu returned to San Antonio a year later in 1979 to face a probation revocation hearing and then served his sentence at a correctional halfway house in San Antonio. After the completion of his sentence, Cantu retired from his political activism and focused his attention on expanding his restaurant business and organizing community events in ...
The building is named in honor of Lorenzo de Zavala, a statesman in Texas history. Built in 1959 and inaugurated in 1961, [ 3 ] the building houses the headquarters of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission , and is located east of and adjacent to the Texas State Capitol , and made of the same pink granite as the capitol building. [ 4 ] (
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Fray Antonio de Olivares also built the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, on the west side of the San Antonio River, approximately 1 mile from the mission. [4] It was designed to protect the system of missions and civilian settlements in central Texas and to ensure Spanish claims in the region against possible encroachment from other European powers.