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Site of First Mission in Texas

Ysleta, El Paso County

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Application info: Spanish type mission, with oldest cultivated plot of land in US adjacent. Originally buitl 1681, partially restored. Still in use as church. Site of annual dances of Tigua Indians, who helped padres built it. School in conjunction Years before the missions of California and Central Texas were even considered the Ysleta Mission was serving scores of worshippers in what is the oldest community in Texas -- Ysleta.

Marker Details

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Location Description Located at entrance to Corpus Christi de la Ysleta Del Sur Mission; Ysleta
Marker # 4786
Dedicated 1962
Size, Type Statue erected by the Texas State Council Knights of Columbus 1936
Code missions
Latitude, Longitude 31.695707, -106.324251

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