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 denounced J.S. Gillett, W. J. Morton and J. R. Sipes as willful and malicious scoundrels' for calling him an Abolitionist. In reply these men called Mills a damned Black Republican and a contemptible pup. Many notices such as these, caused our first citizens to carry shooting irons on all occasions.
Marker is at the intersection of South El Paso Street and Pioneer Plaza, on the right when traveling north on South El Paso Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
