Mission Dolores A Visita, Texas. (original) (raw)

Mission Dolores A Visita Centennial Marker Text:

In the Vicinity of This Site was

Mission Dolores A Visita

Established in 1750 as a part of Jos� de Escandons Project to Settle the Region and Civilize and Christianize the Indians.

Full view of Centennial Marker
Photo Courtesy Barclay Gibson, September 2011

"Nueva Dolores is on high land above the Rio Grande just west of U.S. Highway 83 twenty miles south of Laredo in the northwestern corner of Zapata County. It is on land that originally belonged to Jos� V�zquez Borrego, who established a ranch, Nuestra Se�ora de los Dolores Hacienda (also known as Nuestra Se�ora de Dolores), on the north bank of the Rio Grande in 1750. Nueva Dolores is two miles upriver from the original ranch headquarters, known as Dolores."

- From: John Hazelton, "NUEVA DOLORES, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvn65), accessed January 09, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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