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MILESTONES IN HISTORY OF EL PASO1520153615961630165916811682177618071827183618451846Conquest of Mexico. El Paso district becomes part of New Spain. Cabeza de Vaca first European to reach this vicinity.Don Juan de Onate makes temporary camp near El Paso.Father Benavides preaches to Mansos at El Paso.Founding of Guadalupe mission in Juarez.El Paso becomes base for reconquest of New Mexico after Indians drive out Spaniards in 1680.Ysieta and Socorro missions established.El Paso district comes under rule of Viceroy of Nueva Viscaya. Et. Zebulon M. Pike arrives here as prisoner of Spaniards.13 El Paso comes under Mexican rule as Mexico wins independence.Juan Maria Ponce de Leon builds first permanent habitation in El Paso.El Paso comes under nominal rule of Republic of Texas.Texas annexed by United States.Doniphan defeats Mexican forces at Battle of Brazito in upper valley.First Ft. Bliss established.El Paso County organized.Arrival of John Russell Bartlett with boundary commission. Death of Ponce de Leon, first settler. Town named Franklin. First U. S. mail line established between San Antonio and Santa Fe by way of El Paso.First transcontinental mail line, San Antonio to San Diego,established Aug. 9. 9Southern Overland Mail (Butterfield Mail) begins operations through El Paso.General Anson Mills arrives.William Crosby, first American child born here.Town laid out as its exists today by General Mills and named El Paso.1861-5 Civil War. Battles of Val Verde and Glorietta.1868 Montezuma Times published in manuscript form.First services held by the first Protestant church, St. Clement’s. Death of Simeon Hart, founder of Hart's mill.First speeding ordinance prohibits driving horses “at a furious rate of speed. First city election held, and Benjamin S. Dowell184818501850185218541857185818581859 1859187018731873*elected Mayor.187418771878 1880 1880 188018811881188118821882188218831884188618871890189218941895 1889190219031904190619101911 1914 1916191719201936County seat moved from San Elizario to Ysieta.San Elizario Salt War.Ft. Bliss made permanent military post.C. R. Morehead and O. T. Bassett arrive.Victoria, Apache chief, killed.Rio Grande, El Paso Santa Fe railway obtains first right of way into El Paso.First train arrives over Southern Pacific from west %nd development of modem city begins with rush. First Santa Fe train follows close behind.First issue of El Paso Herald, March 27.First issue of El Paso Times, April 2.First street lamp placed by Masons in front of lodge. Franchises granted to street railway, gas and water companies.First Texas Pacific train arrives. Mexican Central bridge built. First fire department ’(volunteer).First school board takes office. First telephone exchange established with 40 subscribers. County seat moved from Ysieta to El Paso. vFirst opera company gives show.First city directory.First class graduated from high school with two members. McGinty Club named.,Sisters'-Hospital (now Hotel Dieu) opened.Miss Mary I. Stanton starts first public library.John Wesley Hardin, No. 1 bad man* killed.Chamber of Commerce organized.First electric street car.First automobile owned by Frank Bell.Dance halls and gambling outlawed.Country Club founded. First paving done.Cbnstruction of Elephant Butte dam began..Culberson County detached from El Paso County.Large scale cotton planting in El Paso valley begins.Pancho Villa ra}ds Columbus. National Guard mobilized at El Paso.Hudspeth County detached from El Paso.Juarez becomes Mecca for prohibition refugees.Southwestern Sun Carnival opens Texas Centennial Year.mm
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Thu, May 28, 1936
Page 37
Full Page
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