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Site of First Mission in Texas |
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entrance to Ysleta Mission, Ysleta,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
31° 41' 44.545128",
-106° 19' 27.30504"
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Texas State Historical Marker |
Application info: Spanish type mission, with oldest cultivated plot of land in US adjacent. Originally buitl 1681, partially restored. Still in use as church. Site of annual dances of Tigua Indians, who helped padres built it. School in conjunction Years before the missions of California and Central Texas were even considered the Ysleta Mission was serving scores of worshippers in what is the oldest community in Texas -- Ysleta.
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Site of First Mission Historical Marker Location Map, Ysleta, Texas
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