Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Mission [Cabinet Card]
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Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Mission [Cabinet Card]Description
"107 Guadalupe Church, Paso del Norte, Mex."Context
As they approached the Rio Grande from the south, Spanish explorers in the colonial period viewed two mountain ranges rising out of the desert with a deep chasm between. This site they named El Paso del Norte (the Pass of the North), and it became the location of two future border cities, Ciudad Juárez on the south or right bank of the Rio Grande and El Paso, Texas, on the opposite side of the river. The arrival of the first Spanish expedition at the Pass of the North in 1581 marked the beginning of more than 400 years of history in the El Paso area. In 1659 Fray García de San Francisco founded Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Mission, which still stands in downtown Ciudad Juárez, the oldest structure in the El Paso area.Category
Spanish Dominion
Becoming Texas, Bullock Museum