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1. www.mysanantonio.com › 150years › major-storiesHow a 'gamble' turned into an iconic San Antonio hotel - mySA

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   The Hilton Palacio del Rio Hotel's geometric facade along San Antonio's River Walk is a visual reminder of how HemisFair '68 changed the Alamo City. The 21-story hotel at 200 S. Alamo St. was ...

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2. www.historichotels.org › us › hotels-resortsHotel History in San Antonio, Texas | Omni La Mansion del Rio ...

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   In April 1968, La Mansiόn del Rio opened its doors as the “La Posada Motor Hotel” just in time for “Hemisfiar,” San Antonio's 1968 World Fair. Omni Hotels and Resorts eventually acquired the building in 2006, renaming it as the “Omni La Mansion de Rio.”

3. www.tshaonline.org › handbook › entriesSan Antonio River Walk [Paseo del Rio] - TSHA

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   Jan 29, 2014 · The San Antonio River Walk (or Paseo del Rio) is a linear park that winds for thirteen miles from Brackenridge Park through downtown San Antonio and south to the farthest of the city’s five eighteenth-century Spanish missions. The central section of approximately 3½ miles is navigable by tourist barges that stop along riverside walkways near hotels, restaurants, and shops concentrated ...

4. www.mysanantonio.com › news › localDel Rio in the 1930s - mySA

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   Apr 22, 2016 · Billed as the "Queen City of the Rio Grande," Del Rio was a popular destination for tourists and businessmen from San Antonio in the 1930s. File photo. Set along the San Felipe Springs, Del Rio ...

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5. libguides.utsa.edu › cSan Antonio History Matrix - University of Texas at San Antonio

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   Jun 5, 2024 · A Report on the Spanish Archives in San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio: 1937. Castaneda organized the roughly 175,000 documents that constitute the Bexar Archives after they were transferred to the University of Texas. The report organizes the records into their constituent parts as wills, deeds, land records, protocols and miscellaneous items.

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6. www.npshistory.com › publications › saanPark Archives: San Antonio Missions National Historical Park

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   Aug 23, 2024 · As the East Texas missions failed due to disease, drought, and shifting relations with France, three were moved to the San Antonio River valley in 1731. These five missions, a presidio (fort), and a settlement were the seeds for one of the most successful Spanish communities in Texas. The missions flourished between 1747 and 1775, despite ...

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   Why was San Antonio de Valero renamed Alamo?

   • Needing a way station between these and other Franciscan missions in New Spain, the friars transferred a failed mission on the Rio Grande to the San Antonio River in 1718. It was renamed mission San Antonio de Valero, later called the Alamo. Water, timber, and game in this rich valley had long attracted Spanish explorers.

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   What is the history of Omni La Mansion Del Rio?

   • The history of Omni La Mansion del Rio began sixteen years after the fall of the Alamo when four members of the Society of St. Mary arrived in San Antonio, Texas, to establish a school. They occupied the second floor of a stable on the west side of Military Plaza.

   Omni La Mansion del Rio, San Antonio - Historic Hotels Worldwide

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   Where were the first hotels built in San Antonio since the Great Depression?

   • Fair visitors and convention goers could follow the River Walk to the first major hotels built in San Antonio since the Great Depression. One, the Hilton Palacio del Rio, went up near the intersection of the Great Bend and its new extension.

   San Antonio River Walk [Paseo del Rio] - TSHA

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   When was Mission San Antonio de Valero founded?

   • Mission San Antonio de Valero, commonly called the Alamo, was founded in 1718, the first mission on the San Antonio River. A State Historic Site, the Alamo has been under the care of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas since 1905. The mission of Nuestra Señora de la Purisima Concepción was transferred from East Texas in 1731.

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   What is San Antonio known for?

   • In the 2010s, in addition to its original downtown section, the passage included the Museum Reach, which extended through more of San Antonio's top attractions—including Brackenridge Park, the zoo, the Pearl District and three museums—and the Mission Reach, which stretched eight miles along the historic San Antonio Missions Trail.

   San Antonio River Walk [Paseo del Rio] - TSHA

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   Where did the American Indians live in San Antonio Texas?

   • The American Indians who lived in the San Antonio missions came from a number of hunting and gathering bands known collectively as Coahuiltecans (kwa-weel-tekens). Ranging throughout today's south Texas and northeastern Mexico, they moved with the seasons, searching for food.

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8. www.calculatedtraveller.com › blog › la-mansion-delAn Historical Stay on the River Walk in San Antonio Texas

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   Aug 22, 2016 · Sleeping in History at Omni La Mansion del Rio Hotel. Omni La Mansion del Rio first opened its doors in 1968 for the San Antonio World Fair, but before being a luxury hotel the site was the location of St. Mary’s College from 1852 – 1966. A Texas historic landmark, the hotel is built and decorated in the Spanish Colonial Mexico style with ...