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Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, 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.
Kohlberg became involved with the Woman's Club of El Paso (which had grown out of the Current Topics Club) in the 1890s. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In 1899, she became president of the group. [ 11 ] She was a delegate to the General Federation of Woman's Clubs at their Los Angeles meeting in 1902. [ 12 ]
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 ...
Women break ground in 1974. June 1974 was groundbreaking for policewomen in El Paso. Fort Bliss got their first policewoman and the first five women graduated from the city's police academy.
Women's Club of El Paso interior. Members of the Woman's Club were involved in the establishment of Texas's first public school kindergarten. [3] The club, led by one of the Woman's Club presidents, Olga Kohlberg, worked to get a kindergarten established in the first school building in El Paso, Central School, in 1893. [14]
The El Paso Public Library was created largely by members of the Woman's Club of El Paso. [127] In Texas, the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs (TFWC) helped influence the creation of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the Texas Historical Commission. [134]
A Jan. 24, 2011, Las Cruces Sun-News article by Christopher Schutz reported the history of the NMSU "A." The Aggies began their tradition in 1920, the same year as El Paso High, and three years ...
One El Paso newspaper claimed Mexicans were "foreigners who claim American citizenship but who are as ignorant of things American as the mule." [131] The Lugo family in Bell Gardens, California, c. 1890s. In the 1890s, the railroad and mining industries continued to expand.