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The city of El Paso acquired the property on which the Plaza is located in 1881 from William T. Smith. Smith had bought the land from the heirs of its early owner, Juan Maria Ponce de Leon, a prominent El Paso figure, who had owned the spot since 1827. The square had since been the location of the corrals for de León’s ranch.
Texarkana-El Paso; extended to NM border in 1918; co-designated with US 80 from NM to Dallas and US 67 from Dallas to Texarkana in 1926; reassigned to downtown Dallas in 1939 (replacing 1B); deleted 1991; number likely will never be used again SH 1 Loop: 1938 1939 → Loop 16: El Paso; now US 62 and US 85 SH 1 Spur: 1938 1939 → Spur 40: Santo ...
1888 - El Paso del Norte renamed "Juárez" in honor of Benito Juárez. [1] leaving El Paso, Texas the sole El Paso. 1889 – McGinty Club active. [9] 1890 – Population: 10,338. 1892 – Santa Fe Street bridge built. [6] 1895 – El Paso Public Library founded. [10] 1898 - Zion Lutheran Church is established. It is the first Lutheran Church in ...
El Paso (/ ɛ l ˈ p æ s oʊ /; Spanish: [el ˈpaso]; lit. ' the route ' or ' the pass ') is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, [5] making it the 22nd-most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in West Texas, and the sixth-most populous city in Texas. [8]
Spanish explorer Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, Mexico, was the first explorer to arrive at the Rio Grande near El Paso (near the current small town of San Elizario, which is about 30 miles (48 km) downstream of El Paso), where he ordered his expedition party to rest and where the official act of possession, La Toma, was executed and celebrated, on April 30, 1598.
The floods of 1938 were so epic they led to a massive re-engineering of the L.A. River that vastly reduced the ability to recharge groundwater. How the deluge of 1938 changed Los Angeles — and ...
The idea for the wall dates back to 2011, when Julia Bussinger, the director of the El Paso Museum of History met with the Copenhagen museum director at a conference. [14] The two directors discussed having the next digital wall in El Paso. [14] Copenhagen was the location of the first digital wall of its kind in the world. [11]
The station was added to the El Paso cable system in 1991. [6] Lee Enterprises bought the station in 1993 [ 4 ] for $440,000, after a separate $900,000 sale fell through the year prior. [ 7 ] " Z48" became a charter affiliate of the United Paramount Network ( UPN ) upon the network's launch on January 16, 1995.