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    Historic Photos of San Antonio
    Historic Photos of San Antonio
    Historic Photos of San Antonio
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    Historic Photos of San Antonio

    By Frank S. Faulkner

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    San Antonio was named for the Portuguese Saint Anthony of Padua when a Spanish expedition stopped in the area in 1691. The actual founding of the city took place in 1718 by Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares. The ?River City? is famous for the Alamo and the River Walk, the two most visited tourists attractions in the entire state of Texas, along with Sea World, Six Flags Texas Fiesta and a very strong military concentration. This book follows life, government, events and people important to San Antonio history and the building of this unique city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of San Antonio!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateAug 1, 2007
    ISBN9781618586797
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      Historic Photos of San Antonio - Frank S. Faulkner

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      SAN ANTONIO

      TEXT AND CAPTIONS BY FRANK S. FAULKNER, JR.

      Looking northeast from the top of Pioneer Flour Mills towards downtown in the late 1930s. The town has grown since the early 1920s, and skyscrapers fill the center of the city. The Johnson Street Bridge can be seen in the bottom foreground.

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      SAN ANTONIO

      Turner Publishing Company

      200 4th Avenue North • Suite 950

      Nashville, Tennessee 37219

      (615) 255-2665

      www.turnerpublishing.com

      Historic Photos of San Antonio

      Copyright © 2007 Turner Publishing Company

      All rights reserved.

      This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2007923677

      ISBN: 978-1-59652-378-4

      Printed in China

      09 10 11 12 13 14—0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3

      CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PREFACE

      THE BEGINNINGS OF PROSPERITY (1860S–1899)

      FROM TOWN TO CITY (1900–1919)

      FROM THE HEIGHTS TO THE DEPTHS (1920–1939)

      FROM DEPRESSION TO ELATION (1940–1969)

      NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS

      Cadets from Peacock Military Academy seated in decorated carriages in front of the Menger Hotel during the Battle of Flowers Parade, April 1904. Peacock Academy was opened by Wesley and Saline Peacock on September 4, 1894, near West End Lake (later renamed Woodlawn Lake). It was built about three miles from downtown, at the time the area was seeing a real estate boom. Also, note that the street is paved with mesquite blocks.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      This volume, Historic Photos of San Antonio, is the result of the cooperation and efforts of

      Library of Congress

      Texana/Genealogy Department of the San Antonio Public Library

      University of Texas at San Antonio, Institute of Texan Cultures

      The author would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions and assistance in making this work possible:

      Deborah Countess, Texana/Genealogy, for proofreading and editing

      Andrew Crews, Texana/Genealogy, for preparing Texana/Genealogy photographs

      Maria Pfeiffer, local researcher, for checking historical data

      Thomas Shelton, Institute of Texan Cultures, for helping to identify some photographs

      Clarissa Chavira and T. Matthew DeWaelsche, Texana/Genealogy, for watching the reference desk while I took off to do the research

      Linda Faulkner, my wife, for everything

      PREFACE

      This book begins in the 1860s when photography began to be popular, but the city is much older. It owes its origin and survival to water deep underground to the north and west of the city in what is called the Edwards Aquifer. In prehistoric times, springs bubbled to the ground’s surface and, over millennia, created the San Antonio River. Native Americans congregated on its banks long before Mexico, which included present-day Texas, became a Spanish colony.

      In 1691, Domingo Teran de los Rios led an expedition that arrived at the river near present San Pedro Park on June 13, the feast day of Saint Anthony. In 1718, Martin de Alarcon received instructions to establish two missions in the area. Villa de Bejar was founded May 5, and on March 9, 1731, sixteen families arrived from the Canary Islands to establish Villa de San Fernando. Three other missions were begun, and a civil government was soon created to complement the ecclesiastical and military organizations. An official census taken in December 1783 shows a population of 1,392.

      Over the years, tensions grew between Spain and its Mexican colonists. On September 16, 1810, Father Miguel Hidalgo began a revolution that reached Texas in 1812, when Augustus Magee—an American—and Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara raised a Republican Army of the North. After defeats by Royalists at La Bahia, Rosillo, Salado, Medina, and Alazan, the revolution ended in the San Antonio area, and most of the remaining revolutionaries were put to death. The revolution succeeded elsewhere, however, and Mexico became an independent nation in 1821.

      Moses Austin, from Missouri, successfully petitioned the Mexican government to establish a colony in Texas for immigrants from the United States but died soon after it was granted. His son, Stephen F. Austin, carried on the plan and stopped in San Antonio in 1821 before pushing on 175 miles north. Settlers began arriving in 1825, and there were those in the United States who advocated annexing Texas. When Santa Anna came to power in Mexico in 1833, overthrowing the Constitution of 1824 and the colonization laws, unrest escalated to revolution. For thirteen days, ending March 6, 1836, a small band of Texans defied a vastly larger Mexican army under Santa Anna at the Alamo. Their heroic, hopeless stand bought time for the revolutionary army and made San Antonio famous around the world. Texas won its independence and remained a republic through 1845, when it became the twenty-eighth state of the United States.

      The majority of Americans who came to Texas were from the South and brought an acceptance of slavery with them. The state sided with the Southern Confederacy in the Civil War, but in the popular referendum on secession held on February 23, 1861, over 40 percent of the citizens of Bexar County opposed leaving the United States. The county, according to the 1860 federal census, had only 1,395 slaves

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