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San Elizario Texas
San Elizario (San Elceario, San
Elzeario) is at the intersection of
miles southeast of downtown El
Paso in southern El Paso CounRio Grande at or near the site of
present San Elizario on April 20,
mal possession of New Mexico
and all adjacent territory in the
A settlement known as the Hacienda de los Tiburcios was
founded at the site, then south of
the Rio Grande, sometime before
The San Elizario High School varsity cross-country team made history on November 8, 2014 when
gles and their coaches Cesar Morales and Jorge
Maese competed at the University Interscholastic
League (UIL) Texas State Cross-Country ChampiElizario High School outscored 44 other teams
were expected to commit to their training, which
sleep every night, and monitoring their academic
that level of discipline throughout the season,
then there was nothing that could stop them from

sidio, located in the Valle de San
was moved to the Hacienda de
los Tiburcios; the presidio kept
its old name, however, and the
settlement that grew up around it
became
known
as San

to personally talk to them and show them a little
After Commissioners Court adopted and approved
the resolution to recognize the team, they each

year later, when the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo established
“the deepest channel” of the Rio
Grande as the boundary between
Texas and Mexico, San Elizario
lay on the Lower El Paso or Military Road from Corpus Christi
to California, and hundreds of
admiringly described the local
peaches, plums, and wheat, and
the wine produced from San Elizario grapes was held in high refantry under Jefferson Van Horne
were stationed there from 1849
nized, San Elizario was selected
periods
a n d
1866,
it remained
t h e
county
s e a t
until

Mexican War of Independence
from Spain, San Elizario became
Mexican troops still occupied the
as a nucleus for a town which by
In 1830–31 the unpredictable Rio
Grande changed course, placing
San Elizario and its neighboring
communities on La Isla, between
the old and new channels of the -

the Civil War troops of the California Column occupied the old
presidio, but after the war it was
haps the most notorious episode
in the history of the town was the
1877 Salt War of San Elizario,
in which several men died in a
dispute over rights to the salt deposits just west of the Guadalupe
Mountains, ninety miles to the
-

cold war becomes hot
demarkation has been
drawn on the campus
of TWC, admittedly by
Drawn on the only road
that leads to the engineering buildings on the
campus, the letters TCM
appear on the side of the
engineers and TWC on
the academic side of the
Early in 1949 when the
in for heated discussion, mining students at
the college immediately
protested, and on March
of the college of Mines
at a downtown meeting
to protest a change for

On April 29,
the University of
Texas
Board
of
Regents
rapidly
voted
and
approved
changing the
name
to Texas
Western ColBeauford Jester,
then governor, signed
the bill on May 20 and May
31, 1949, this was the last
day the school operated under the name given the institution when it was primarily
a mining and engineering -