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The Famous Hotel El Paso de Robles 1891 - 1940

Historic Site

On May 11, 1889, with one million bricks piled at this site, the laying of the foundation of this famous hotel was begun.

In November of 1889, the El Paso de Robles Hotel Company was incorporated with five stockholders: Drury ...

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El Paso County

CSA

Voted 871 to 2 for secession. At start of Civil War Minutemen were organized to provide frontier protection. The San Elizario Spy Company was mustered into Confederate service on July 11, 1861. El Paso was the springboard and supply point ...

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El Paso

Largest U.S. city on the Mexican border. Named for the mountain pass. Historic gateway for Indians, priests, gold-seekers, traders, stages. Federal troops occupied this area longer than any other in Texas during the Civil War. Agricultural, industrial and military center. ...

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El Paso Del Rio Del Norte

This canyon cut here by the Rio Grande marks the crossing of the historic Camino Real, or Royal Road, to La Tierra Adentra. Trackers and traders crossed the river here to begin the arduous journey north to Santa Fe. Permanent ...

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The City of El Paso / Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Before you stands

The City of El Paso

in the valley of the Rio Grande

and across is

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

To the far right is the river's southern exit

through the famed Pass of the North from which

El Paso takes its name.

This is historic ground. ...

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Mount Cristo Rey/ The Gadsden Purchase/ El Paso Smelting Works

Mount Cristo Rey

High above the point where the states of Texas, New Mexico and Chihuahua intersect stands an impressive monument at the summit of Sierra de Cristo Rey, portraying Christ on the cross. The dream of the small parish of ...

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El Paso's First Newspaper

El Paso Del Norte where the Centuries Meet

El Paso's First Newspaper

Near this spot in 1860, grew a cottonwood tree on whose broad breast were posted many public and private notices. In one of these on August 6th, 1860, Anson Mills ...

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El Paso's Chinese Community

Chinese immigrants first arrived in El Paso shortly before the Southern Pacific Railroad completed its line here in 1881. The earliest immigrants opened a rooming house and a grocery store. Soon afterwards, the U.S. Government passed the Chinese exclusion act ...

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Nine of Primitive El Paso's Patriotic Heroes

To the memory of

nine of primative El Paso's

patriotic heroes

Emmett Mills

Aged 19

Freeman Thomas - Joe Poacher

M. Champion - John Pontel

Bob Avlin - John Wilson

Who in July 1861

were loyal citizens

of El Paso, Texas

and Loyal employees

of the Butterfield Overland Mail Co.

When all ...

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El Paso Lower Valley Missions/ Cordova Island/ The City and Coun

El Paso Lower Valley Missions

Ysleta Mission -- 1681. Ysleta, the oldest community in Texas, claims the most steadily cultivated plot of land in the U.S.

Socorro Mission -- 1682. Regarded as the oldest active parish church in the U.S. Has a ...

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