Rio Vista Farm

Rio Vista Farm (HMPF0)

Location: Socorro, TX 79927 El Paso County
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N 31° 39.689', W 106° 15.954'

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English Translation:
El Paso County's second poor farm, known as the El Paso Poor Farm, was established here in 1915. John O'Shea, a wealthy farmer and businessman whose farm was nearby, assumed operation of the farm. His wife, Agnes O'Shea, was in charge of the residents. John O'Shea died in 1929, and the couple's daughter, Helen O'Shea Keleher, came from her home in San Antonio to operate the farm with her mother. The farm was scheduled to be closed in 1929, but, with the troubled times of the Depression era, its population grew. Renamed "Rio Vista Farm," the poor farm hosted a variety of public welfare programs beginning in the 1930s. It operated under the Texas Transient Bureau and later the Federal Works Progress Administration. A temporary base for a Civilian Conservation Corps unit in 1936, the farm continued to shelter hundreds of homeless and destitute adults and children.

From 1951 to 1964, the farm was used as a reception and processing center for the Bracero Program, which brought Mexican laborers to work in the lower valley of El Paso and other agricultural areas in the U.S. New federal welfare programs and state law reduced the population of the poor farm to four, and it was closed in 1964.

Unlike other Texas county poor farms, Rio Vista followed a familial rather than institutional model, accepting neglected and abandoned children in addition to the adult indigent population. In later life, Helen O'Shea Keleher cited the fifty years she spent with the more than four thousand orphans and neglected children of the Rio Vista Poor Farm as her proudest accomplishment.

Spanish Translation:
Granja R?o Vista
La 2 casa de caridad del condado del El Paso, conocida como La Granja Podre De El Paso, se estableci? en esta lugar en 1915. John O'Shea empresario y agricultor rico, tenia su granja a corta distancia, se encargo de las operaciones y su esposa, Agnes, se encargaba de los residentes.En 1929, cuando Muri? el Sr. O'Shea su hija Helen O'Shea Keleher vino de San Antonio para operar la granja con su madre. En 1929, iba cerrar la granja, pero por los tiempos dif?ciles de la era de la Depression, su poblaci?n aument?. Bajo el nuevo nombre de "Granja R?o Vista," a principios de los 1930, varios programas sociales se realizaron en la granja. Funciono baja el Texas Transient Bureau y Federal Works Progress Administration.En 1936, como base temporal para un cuerp Civil de conservaci?n, la granje sigui? de albergue para cientos de adultos y ni?os desamparados y destituidos.

De 1951 a 1964, la granja funcion? como centro de recepci?n y procesamiento para el Progama de Braceros, a trav del cual personas de M?xico ven?an a trabajar en el Valle Bajo de El Paso y en otras ?reas agr?colas de los Estados Unidos. Con los neuvos programas federales de prestaciones sociales y leyes estatales, la poblaci?n de R?o Vista se vio reducica a cuatro personas, cuando cerro en 1964.

A diferencia de casas de caridad de otros condados de Texas, R?o Vista segu?a un modelo familiar y no institutional, donde se acepaban ni?os descuidados y abandonados y a la poblaci?n indegente adulta. En sus ?ltimos a?os, Helen O'Shea puntualizo que los 50 a?os que paso con m de 4 mil ni?os hu?rfanos y abandonados en R?o Vista, fueron su logro de mayor orgullo.
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HM NumberHMPF0
Series This marker is part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects series
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Year Placed2000
Placed ByTexas Historical Commission
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 at 11:12pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)13R E 379987 N 3503610
Decimal Degrees31.66148333, -106.26590000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 31° 39.689', W 106° 15.954'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds31° 39' 41.34" N, 106° 15' 57.24" W
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Area Code(s)915
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 819 N Rio Vista Rd, Socorro TX 79927, US
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