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El Paso Lower Valley Missions

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El Paso, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 31° 46' 51.980088", -106° 28' 48.95076"
 
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    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 unique burying ground and descansas. San Elizario -- where domestic animals were first introduced and military garrison established in the now continental U.S. by Don Juan de Onate in 1598. The presidio chapel was founded in 1777 and El Paso's first courthouse in 1850 and the first county jail west of San Antonio, where Billy the Kid was once confined. Here is reportedly the oldest building in Texas, the once vice-regal palace and seat of Spanish government. The Salt War monument marks a short and bloody civil conflict. Presented by the State National Bank of El Paso, 1962

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

El Paso Lower Valley Missions Historical Marker Location Map, Texas