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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UL_casa-ortiz_Socorro-TX.html
Legend says this house was built before 1800. In 1840s, its owner was Jose Ortiz, whose cart train freighted salt from foot of Guadalupe Mountains to Durango; knives, sarapes, clothing to Santa Fe and Llano Estancado. There he traded with Comanche…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPF0_rio-vista-farm_Socorro-TX.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPEZ_socorro_Socorro-TX.html
Site of the mission and pueblo of Nuestra Se?ora de la Concepci?n Del Pueblo de Socorro established by Don Antonio de Otermin and Father Fray Francisco Ayeta, O.F.M. in 1683. Maintained by Franciscan missionaries for the civilizing and Christianiz…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPEY_camino-real_Socorro-TX.html
For more than 200 years the Camino Real, or Royal Road, was the major route for transporting commercial goods from Mexico City and Chihuahua to Santa Fe and Taos. First traveled by Juan de O?ate during his 1598 expedition to New Mexico, the Camino…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2KM_socorro-mission-la-purisima_Socorro-TX.html
During the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Gov. Antonio De Otermin and Father Francisco de Ayeta led Piro Indian and Spanish refugees out of New Mexico into this region, establishing a settlement they named Socorro after the home they had left. The town's …