On U.S. 83, 9.7 miles north of U.S. 57, on the left when traveling north.
Founded April 1862 near this site, to guard vital traffic as it crossed the Nueces on the San Antonio-Eagle Pass Road. A post of the Confederacy's frontier regiment, under Col. James M. Norris. Its duty was to see that cotton got through to . . . — — Map (db m111421) HM
On U.S. 83, 9.7 miles north of U.S. 57, on the left when traveling north.
In the 16th century, northern Mexico was torn by strife as the Indian inhabitants resisted Spanish efforts to enslave them. A century later, wealthy humanitarian Antonio Balcarcel set out to invoke justice and help missionaries Christianize the . . . — — Map (db m111419) HM
