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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2937_navarro-street-bridge_San-Antonio-TX.html
San Antonio's population tripled to 161,000 between 1900 and 1920. Commercial and residential development boomed, and automobiles and streetcars clogged narrow thoroughfares. Local leaders recognized the need to modernize the outdated infrastructu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2926_twohig-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Irish immigrant John Twohig built his house here on the San Antonio River in the late 1840s. A suspended footbridge connected the house with his business on the opposite side of the river.
Twohig became known as the "breadline banker" f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2925_the-san-antonio-river_San-Antonio-TX.html
The San Antonio River begins four miles north of here, fed by springs that rise from the Edwards Aquifer deep below the Texas Hill Country. The river is also fed by tributaries along its winding, southeasterly course to join the Guadalupe River ne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM291H_still-on-patrol_San-Antonio-TX.html
U.S. Navy Submarines paid heavily for their success in World War II. A total of 374 officers and 3131 men are on board these 52 submarines still on "patrol"
We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28RC_travis-street-crossing_San-Antonio-TX.html
County leaders purchased land on the west bank of the San Antonio River in 1859, intending to build a new courthouse and jail. Their plans changed and the property was sold in 1866 to a miller, Jacob Laux, who dammed the river and built a four-sto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28RB_houston-street_San-Antonio-TX.html
Houston Street, known from the 1700s until the middle 1800s as Paseo (passageway) or Paseo Hondo (deep passageway), was sloped to the San Antonio River. Nearby land drained to the river, and the usually dusty street became a muddy bog when it rain…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28R7_commerce-street_San-Antonio-TX.html
Life in San Antonio in the 1700s revolved around Main and Military plazas west of the river and Mission San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo) east of the river.
Residents traveled between the plazas and mission along an unpaved street that led to a l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QE_nueva-street-dam-and-marina_San-Antonio-TX.html
The river in the downtown area is kept at a constant level by floodgates located just below the Nueva Street Bridge. The gates open during heavy rains, allowing water to pass safely from the upper to the lower channel. When this occurs, other gate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QB_flooding-dams_San-Antonio-TX.html
The San Antonio River and surrounding creeks have experienced devastating floods throughout the city's history. Major flooding in 1819, 1868, 1913, and 1921 caused extensive property damage and loss of life. An engineering study after the 1868 flo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QA_locks-dams_San-Antonio-TX.html
Throughout history it has often been desirable to allow boats to travel up streams farther than shallow water would normally allow them to go. For centuries this problem has been solved by using dams, gates, and locks.
Since 1941, dams built i…