- Texas - U. S. National Park Service
National Monument Alibates Flint Quarries Fritch, TX 13,000 years ago, Alibates was used by mammoth hunters as a source of flint for tools The colorful flint has never lost its value or usefulness in the Texas Panhandle
- Texas - List View (U. S. National Park Service)
National Monument Alibates Flint Quarries Fritch, TX 13,000 years ago, Alibates was used by mammoth hunters as a source of flint for tools The colorful flint has never lost its value or usefulness in the Texas Panhandle
- San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (U. S. National Park Service)
Imperial Times, Evolving Cultures Welcome to San Antonio Missions, a National Park Service site and the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in Texas
- Mission San Antonio de Valero 3rd Site The Alamo - U. S. National Park . . .
Most commonly known as the Alamo, the third site of Mission San Antonio de Valero was an important part of missionary work in Texas before becoming the site of many military garrisons
- San Antonio Missions World Heritage Site - San Antonio Missions . . .
All five missions in San Antonio, Texas, including Mission Valero (the Alamo) are a single UNESCO World Heritage Site, the San Antonio Missions World Heritage Site Four of the five (Mission Concepción, Mission San José, Mission San Juan, and Mission Espada) comprise San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
- Mission San Antonio de Valero, The Alamo -- Spanish Colonial Missions . . .
The first person listed as a vaquero, or cowboy, at the mission in what became Texas was a Ziaguan Indian named Carlos who was killed by Apaches in 1728 As Apache raiding continued, the mission was fortified with a large gate, a turret, and three cannons The Franciscan mission there lasted until the end of the 18th century, when disease, desertion, and raiding took its toll on the native
- Waco Mammoth National Monument (U. S. National Park Service)
Standing as tall as 14 feet and weighing 20,000 pounds, Columbian mammoths roamed across what is present-day Texas thousands of years ago Today, the fossil specimens represent the nation's first and only recorded evidence of a nursery herd of ice age Columbian mammoths
- Things To Do - San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (U. S . . .
Find information on things to do at Mission Concepcion Learn about the Four Voices exhibit in the Contact Station!
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