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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.
In 1980, the name was changed to the El Paso Museum of History. [4] The museum was supervised by the El Paso Museum of Art director until the El Paso Museum of History hired its director in December 1990. [6] The museum's building was considered undersized and in a poor location, so in 2000, the museum was included as part of a bond issue to ...
The Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens is a cultural history and natural history museum on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso in El Paso, Texas, United States.The museum was built in 1936 to commemorate the centenary of Texas independence, making it the oldest museum in El Paso. The Centennial Museum is an academic ...
Hotel Paso del Norte is a historic 351-room hotel. It is located in El Paso, Texas, less than one mile north of the international border with Mexico. The hotel originally opened on Thanksgiving Day 1912, and was designed by Trost & Trost. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1979. It recently ...
The 108-year-old, long-vacant Krupp building at 107 W. Overland Ave., as seen Sept. 5 in Downtown El Paso, is on the market for $1.05 million after a proposed housing project for the property was ...
The museum is operating an exhibit adjacent to historic 1857 locomotive No.1 of the El Paso & Southwestern located in the Union Plaza Transit Terminal, just south of the Civic Center. Displays demonstrate how transportation enhanced the development of business and industry in this region.
During the French intervention in Mexico (1862–1867), El Paso del Norte served as a temporary stop for republican forces of ousted leader Benito Juárez until he established his government-in-exile in Chihuahua. In 1888, El Paso del Norte was renamed in honor of Juárez. Map of El Paso in 1886.
Roughly, S of the Texas and Pacific-Southern Pacific RR tracks from western El Paso to Fabens 31°40′21″N 106°22′35″W / 31.6725°N 106.376389°W / 31.6725; -106.376389 ( Franklin