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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23R9_camp-nueces-c-s-a_TX.html
Founded April 1862 near this site, to guard vital traffic as it crossed the Nueces on the San Antonio-Eagle Pass Road. A post of the Confederacy's frontier regiment, under Col. James M. Norris. Its duty was to see that cotton got through to Mexico…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23R8_the-bosque-larios-expedition_TX.html
In the 16th century, northern Mexico was torn by strife as the Indian inhabitants resisted Spanish efforts to enslave them. A century later, wealthy humanitarian Antonio Balcarcel set out to invoke justice and help missionaries Christianize the la…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23R5_world-war-ii-concentration-camp_Crystal-City-TX.html
Due to circumstances beyond their control and consequences of a war between the United States and Japan, peoples of Japanese ancestry, both nationals and U.S. citizens alike, were arbitrarily and without justification, incarcerated in a concentrat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23R4_crystal-city-family-internment-camp-world-war-ii_Crystal-City-TX.html
When the U.S. entered the war in 1941, an immediate fear was the possibility of enemy agents in the country and the Western Hemisphere. As one response, thousands of Japanese-Americans were moved away from the West Coast. Lesser known was an inter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23R3_living-and-working-in-an-internment-camp_Crystal-City-TX.html
Crystal Care Family Internment Camp was staffed by local civilian employees in secretarial and clerical positions, civilian nurses and doctors, a professional cadre of Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) administrators and Border Patrolme…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23R2_world-war-ii-enemy-alien-internment_Crystal-City-TX.html
"Inevitably, war creates situations which Americans would not countenance in times of peace, such as the internment of men and women who were considered potentially dangerous to America's national security."
-INS, Department of Justice,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23R1_confinement-site-history-of-crystal-city-family-internment-camp_Crystal-City-TX.html
By late 1942, the U.S. Army realized it needed to focus the efforts of its Provost Marshal General's Office on the expected task of guarding hundreds of thousands of Axis prisoners of war. In response, the Department of Justice (DOJ) gave the Immi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23R0_zavala-county_Crystal-City-TX.html
Explored as early as 1691 by the expedition of Domingo Teran de Los Rios, Spanish governor of Texas. The historic San Antonio Road crossed this region from southwest to northeast and was used by most of the Spanish explorers and travelers of the 1…