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El
Paso Texas Landmarks/ Attractions |
Chamizal
National Memorial -
915-532-7273
Paisano St. and San Marcial St.
Concordia
Cemetery - The El Paso of the 1870s and 80s provided many chapters (many of
them final chapters) in the lives of some of the most well-known Texas gunfighters.
Dallas Stoudenmire, John Wesley Hardin, his assassin John Selman and
Bass Outlaw to mention a few. J. W. Hardin is buried here.
"From the
Chinese section to the poorest graves marked only by a cross made from two pieces
of rebar, a very strong feeling of the past is evoked, despite (or maybe because
of) its change into an urban setting with adjacent freeway overpasses." -
Chris Abbott.
El
Paso Speedway Park - Auto racing, 915-857-3478
El
Paso Union Depot
circa 1906 - AMTRAK station.
Behind the Convention Center.
El
Paso Zoo - 915-521-1850.
Admissions.
4001 E. Paisano St. near the Bridge of the Americas.
www.elpasozoo.org
Fort
Bliss
Juarez,
Mexico
The
Missions of the Lower Valley
Wyler
Aerial Tramway
1700 McKinley El Paso, Texas 79930
(915) 566-6622
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Museums:
The Border Patrol
Museum - 915-759-6060
4315 Transmountain Rd. (Loop 375)El
Paso Centennial Museum
- 915-747-5565
University Ave. and Wiggings Rd.
University of Texas at El
Paso campus.
El
Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center - 915-584-4202El
Paso Museum of Art - 915-532-1707
Kress Collection, and Mexican and Southwestern
art.
Tues. - Sat. 10AM - 5PM, Sun. 1-5PM
Santa Fe St. and San Antonio St.
El Paso Museum
of History - 915-759-8585
I-10 and Loop 375
The
Natural History Museum
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State
Parks: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.usHueco
Tanks State Park
6900 Hueco Tanks Road No 1 El Paso TX 79938
915/857-1135Franklin
Mountains State Park
1331 McKelligon Canyon Road El Paso TX 79930
915/566-6441 Magoffin
Home State Historical Park
1120 Magoffin Avenue El Paso TX 79901
915/533-5147
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El Paso Landmarks
Architecturally, El Paso has many (but not all) of West Texas' crown jewels. Included
are the Bassett Tower (c.1930), The Hotel Cortez (1926), The Kress Building (1937)
The Alhambra Theater (1914), The Merrick Building (1887), the Railroad
Station and El Paso High.
Bassett Tower c.1930
Old postcard
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Camino
Real National Scenic Byway
by Delbert Trew
The old road "Camino Real" or Royal Road may not be
the oldest road in America but was completed in 1598... It begins at the San Juan
Pueblo in northern New Mexico, goes 400 miles south to El Paso then on another
1,200 miles to Mexico City. The U.S. designated it a National Scenic Byway...
El
Paso as Movie Location
El Paso also has a film commission. Recent films
in and around El Paso have been scenes from Dead Man's Walk (Salt Flat),
Courage Under Fire, Blue Sky (an appropriate title) and the recent
Traffic.
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St
Patrick's Cathedral El Paso Texas
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, 2005 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
The History and Culture of El Paso go back to 1598 and earlier. El Paso
and Ciudad Juarez are the largest border cities on the Texas/ Mexico border.
The battles fought for control of Juarez during the Mexican Revolution were observed
with great interest by El Pasoans who stood on freight cars to watch. The story
is told that the victorious Francisco "Pancho" Villa (after accepting the
surrender of the Federal troops) invited the defeated General to dinner in El
Paso. The defeated general accepted, but they started fighting again - this time
over who would pay the check.
The El Paso of the 1870s and 80s also
provided many chapters (many of them final chapters) in the lives of some of the
most well-known Texas gunfighters. Dallas Stoudenmire, John Wesley Hardin,
his assassin John Selman and Bass Outlaw to mention a few. J. W.
Hardin is buried in El Paso's Concordia Cemetery.
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El
Paso Chronicles
Sal
del Rey by Delbert Trew
"This historic old salt lake... has been
providing 99 2/5 percent pure salt since before America was discovered. It covers
about 640 acres...
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El
Paso and the Battle of Juarez by Mike Cox ("Texas
Tales" column)
On June 29, during a
gun battle in Juarez, Mexico, seven stray AK 47 rifle rounds flew across the Rio
Grande and hit city hall in downtown El Paso... Nearly a hundred years have gone
by since the last time it happened... Border
Patrol Shootout on the Rio Grande El Paso (1916)
from "Border Patrol:
With the U.S. Immigration Service on the Mexican Boundary 1910-54" by Clifford
Alan Perkins 1918
Flu by Mike Cox ("Texas
Tales" column)
" In El Paso, east-west
railroad traffic and the routine rotation of troops at Fort Bliss carried the
disease to the Southwestern desert, an area generally noted for its healthfulness.
On September 30, 1918, El Paso papers casually noted that some people in the city
had the flu, but the situation worsened daily.... more"
Storm
of 1895 by Mike Cox ("Texas
Tales" column)
"... In a good year, which is to say an
average year, the city at the Pass of the North enjoys only nine inches of rain.
But in the spring of 1895, what fell from the sky was dust... more
"Bombsite
by Mike Cox ("Texas
Tales" column)
July 16, 1945 saw three
dawns.
At 5:29.45 a.m. Mountain War Time, scientists detonated the world’s
first atomic bomb 171 miles north of El Paso at a site on the Alamogordo Bombing
and Gunnery Range in New Mexico.The
Lady in Blue by Bob
Bowman ("All Things Historical" column)Death
Notice by Mike Cox ("Texas
Tales" column)
William
A. Keleher’s first assignment as a Times staff writer was what’s known as a death
watch. General Victoriano Huerta, former Mexican president, had been living in
exile in El Paso. But the 73-year-old newsmaker would not be living anywhere much
longer. When Huerta died on Jan. 13, 1916, Keleher wrote the obit. It appeared
on page one the following morning. Positive as that was, it turned out to be the
last newspaper story Keleher ever wrote. ...
more
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Of Franklin Mountains from twelfth floor of the current El Paso County courthouse.
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson,
December 2005 |
El
Paso Tourist Information
El
Paso Convention and Visitor's Bureau:
915-534-0600
http://www.elpasocvb.com/
http://www.elpaso.org/
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El Paso Texas Forum
Nacogdoches
claims to be the oldest town in Texas, using 1716 as the date. Now, the Dallas
Morning News Texas Almanac and the Univ Texas Handbook of Texas, on line, say
it 'aint so. They say Ysleta and Socorro of ElPaso were est. ~ 1680-2,
which is an earlier date even using public school math. I suspect there's some
'school pride' in this Nacogdoches-ites claim, but is there a real, non-tall-tale
truth for claiming to be the oldest? Or maybe Mr.
Bowman has this covered somewhere? - J R Overton, May 04, 2004You
don't know how glad I was to find this article...thanks so much. It is really
a great piece of history right in our backyard. - Joshua, 19/Jun/2002
Texas
Escapes, in its purpose to preserve historic, endangered and vanishing
Texas, asks that anyone wishing to share their local history, stories, and vintage/historic
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