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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KCF_hessler-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Juana Francisca Montes de Flores inherited this property from her husband, Jose Leonardo de la Garza, and sold it to Ernest Hessler in 1869. Hessler built this house before 1873, when it appears on the city map. He never lived here, and in 1891 so…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KCD_hessler-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Like 208 South Presa, which it resembles. this house was probably built shortly after 1869 on land purchased by Ernest Hessler from Juana Francisca Montes de Flores. The structure, which appears on the 1873 city map, was rented when Louis Foutrel …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KCA_the-weaving-building-and-kiln_San-Antonio-TX.html
This property was the site of a small caliche house that stood at 105 Nacional Street. Because of its poor condition, the house was demolished during the restoration of La Villita in 1939. The property had been owned by José Maria Monjaras …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KC9_bolivar-hall_San-Antonio-TX.html
Construction of Bolivar Hall was begun in 1940 and completed in 1941. The combination library, museum, and community center was dedicated to the promotion of inter-American peace, and was named in honor of South American patriot, Simon Bolivar. Bo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KC4_benito-juarez_San-Antonio-TX.html
As one of the creators of modern Mexico, President Juarez led the separation of church and state and the resistance against French imperial designs. He also promoted new economic development.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBW_la-villita_San-Antonio-TX.html
La Villita, "The Little Village", settled about 1722 as "The Town of the Alamo". Here General Martin de Perfecto Cos signed the Articles of Capitulation to Texians December 11, 1835 and General Santa Anna's artillery battery fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBV_bombach-house-and-store_San-Antonio-TX.html
Otto Bombach, a carpenter, built this combination house and store in 1856 before moving to Mexico. His wife lived here and managed the property until it was sold in 1869. Victor Bracht, author of Texas in 1848, lived here briefly, and in 1874, Hen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBT_articles-of-capitulation_San-Antonio-TX.html
In this place General Cos signed articles capitulating to the Texans who under Milam and Johnson took San Antonio Dec. 9, 1835.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBS_naming-of-san-antonio_San-Antonio-TX.html
This marker commemorates the 275th anniversary of the naming of the site that became the city of San Antonio. On the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, June 13, 1691, Padre Damian Massanet, Franciscan missionary and Governor Don Domingo Teran, lead…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBQ_the-dashiell-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Colonel Jeremiah Y. Dashiell, a physician who served as paymaster in the U.S.-Mexico War, bought this land on the San Antonio River in 1849. Dashiell was stationed in South Carolina in l856, when he sent his wife and daughter money and instruction…
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