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How did El Paso, Texas get its name?
From the pass through the Rockies, east of the city.
- Robert Johnson
A number of important developments during the 1850s shaped the character of the area north of the river. The
Stephenson-Azcßrate family acquired a 900-acre tract from the Ponce de Le=n grant in the vicinity of today's I-10
"Spaghetti Bowl" interchange. It was called "El Rancho de la Concordia" or "Stephensonville" after Hugh Stephenson's
childhood home in Concordia, Missouri. The Archbishop of Durango later gave permission for the blessing of a private
chapel there, San JosT de la Concordia, whose ruins persisted until the 1930s; its camposanto or burial grounds were
the origins of Concordia Cemetery. Further west, a settlement on Coons' Rancho called Franklin became the nucleus of
El Paso, Texas. El Paso County was established in March 1850, with San Elizario as the first county seat. The United States
Senate fixed a boundary between Texas and New Mexico at the thirty-second parallel, thus largely ignoring history and
topography. A military post called The Post opposite El Paso (meaning opposite El Paso del Norte, across the Rio Grande)
was established in 1854, and the Butterfield Overland Mail arrived in 1858. A year later pioneer Anson Mills completed his
plat of the town, calling it El Paso, a name that resulted in endless confusion until the name of the town across the river, El
Paso del Norte, was changed to Ciudad Jußrez in 1888.
El Paso was incorporated in 1873 and encompassed the small
area communities that had developed along the river (Magoffinsville, Concordia, Hart's Mill).
- Cliff M
What is the most special thing in El Paso, Texas?
Here's my top ten list:
1. The way the sunset paints the mountains lavender at dusk.
2. The sparkli
ng blue sky that never ends
3. The relentless heat of summer, which lasts almost all year!
4. Palm tre
es covered with a rare dusting of snow.
5. The way the rain smells on a summer afternoon as I sit on my fro
nt porch.
6. The way creosote bushes smell like rain.
7. Mexican food, warm tortillas, chile, salsa.
8. The lilt of Spanish being spoken.
9. The warm and friendly people.
10. Dust storms and blow
ing tumbleweeds!
- Walli H.
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