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-The town dates from 1598 when
Juan de Oñate arrived near the
site. Oñate claimed the region
(including present-day New
Mexico) for the Spanish crown.
The original settlement went by
the name Hacienda de los Tiburcios and later moved to the south side of the Rio Grande. In 1775 the community had a population of 157. The Spanish built their presidio directly across
the river from Ft. Hancock in the Valle de San Elizario and when the presidio
later relocated to the Hacienda de los Tiburcios, the presidio retained the name
-changing the name of the settlement to San Elizario. San Eli (aka) was second
only to El Paso for most of the nineteenth century regarding the county seat.

ASARCO was founded in 1899 as the American
Henry H. Rogers, William Rockefeller, Adolph
Lewisohn, Anton Eilers and Leonard Lewisohn. From 1901-1958, American Smelting

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EL PASO : MAY 1895
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Industrial Average. In 1901 Meyer Guggenheim
and his sons took over the company. On January
10, 1916, sixteen Asarco employees were killed
and mutilated by Pancho Villa’s men near the
town of Santa Isabel, Chihuahua. It was one of
the incidents that sparked the Mexican Expedition, this was the United States Army attempt to
either capture or kill Pancho Villa.

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This is the oldest operating high school in
El Paso, Texas. The Lady on the Hill, as it is
of Trost & Trost, the Greco-Roman features
make it a unique landmark. The stadium was

clude a modern language, Spanish, in its course
of study. On November 17, 1980, the school

(aka) The Male Reading Club Of 1894
The library is the oldest continuously operating
public library system in the great state of Texas.
It started in 1894 as a reading club for male students of teacher Mary I. Stanton. She brought
a collection of between 600 – 800 volumes of
books with her from Georgia to
El Paso. Her reading club became so
popular that Stanton opened it to the public
in 1895. In 1904, the Library board secured a
grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation to
build a stand alone library building at the site of
the present main library at Cleveland Square.

Tuesday November 7, 1848 the War Department
General Order No. 58 ordered the establishment
of a military post across from El Paso del Norte.
Saturday December 31, 1898
northeast of El Paso now stands Fort Bliss, a
military post, where there are over 200 troops,
lation of about 300. El Paso has all the trade of
these folks at the post and school children come
in from there dally. The vicinity of the post is
one of the most desirable places of residence
and with rapid transit, many of our citizens will
be building beautiful homes there as well.
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The desperado is now
a citizen. -Original Article
The following, his published reply to a local
newspaper story, is characteristic of his reformation not being quite true.
“To the people of El Paso
and to everyone to whom
it may concern: I have
noticed several articles
as a man, I wish to anthe past my only ambition
has been to be a man and
you bet I have not always
come up to my standard,
but I have no kick to make
My present and my future
it has been in the past and

house or a saloon, and El
Paso seems to be crowded with these places,my
only aim is to acquit
And as to the Acme jack
pot, I would not stand a

As to the Gem hold-up
on craps, after I had lost
a considerable sum I was
dealer in a harass manner, hence I told him he
could not win my money
and harass me too and
that as he undertook to
harass me he could deliver me the money I had

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