Post on 30-Dec-2015
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Brief History
1492 – Columbus came to America Spaniards came to explore American mainland
1500s – Spanish explorers Cabeza de Vaca and Coronado reinforced their claim to Texas
Friars were establishing missions 1682 – La Salle led first the European expedition to navigate the
Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico Claimed the entire region surrounding the Mississippi for France France had a claim to Texas
Spaniards feared a French Texas Decided it was time to settle Texas Renewed efforts to establish missions and settlements
Mission Corpus Christi de la Ysleta
• Established in 1682 by Spanish friars• Located a few miles east of the present-day
El Paso• Texas’ oldest mission• All that remains is the restored mission
church• Has changed names several times making it
difficult to keep up with
Mission Concepción
• Started as a mission in 1716 in East Texas• moved to San Antonio in 1731
• October 1835 – Battle of Concepción• 1898 – Teddy Roosevelt trained his Rough
riders nearby• One of America’s oldest un-restored stone
churches • Still a parish church today
Mission Espada
• Established in 1690• First mission established in East Texas by
the Spanish• Abandoned and reestablished several times• Moved onto the San Antonio River in 1731• Now the center of the Mission Tejas State
Historical Park
Mission San Juan
• Originally founded in 1716 in Eastern Texas
• Transferred in 1731 to its present location• Helped support San Antonio missions and
local settlements • By the mid 1700s, it was a regional supplier
of agricultural produce
Mission San José
• Founded in 1720• Reached its peak in 1794 with 350 Indians • Completely closed as a mission in 1824• The state’s largest restored mission
compound and has the most ornate church façade
• Still a parish church
Mission Espíritu Santo
• Founded originally in 1722 on the Texas coast • Where Texas cattle business had its rudimentary
beginnings• Karankawa Indians proved “cantankerous”
• Moved in 1726 to the Guadalupe River
• Closed in 1830• Situated in the middle of the Goliad State
Historical Park
Presidio La Bahía
• Fort dates back to 1749• La Bahía’s job to protect Mission Espíritu
Santo• Site of many skirmishes during the Mexican
and Texan revolutions• Karankawa Indians not hospitable
• Moved to the Guadalupe River• Goliad
Resources
Information• Anderson, Adrian N. et al. Texas and Texans. Columbus: Glencoe/McGraw
Hill, 1993. • Foster, Nancy Haston. The Texas Monthly Guidebooks: Texas Missions,
Houston: Gulf Publishing Company, 1995, 150 pgs.• http://www.nps.gov/saan/• http://hotx.com/missions/history.html • http://www.lsjunction.com/facts/missions.htm • http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/its2.html
Pictures• http://www.zianet.com/msaxton/TX/index.html• http://www.landscapecamera.com/mission/missions.html