Laredo, Texas: Gateway Community on the Texas Borderlands, Archaeological and Historical Investigations for the Laredo City Toll Plaza

Folan, William J.; Cox, I. Waynne; Fox, Anne A.; Hinojosa, Gilberto M.

doi:10.21112/ita.1986.1.3

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“…After about 1810, a new color combination of rust, green, and brown/black on a greenish cream background appeared (Lister and Lister 1974: Figure 12). Called Guanajuato for the area where it was made, this ware appears on all the San Antonio mission sites and on early nineteenth-century sites in Laredo (Folan et al 1986;Clark and Juarez 1986). Two sherds of this type were found during this project.…”

Section: Tin-glazed Waresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mission San Jose Repointing and Underpinning Project, San Antonio, Texas

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Meissner³

1999

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This report contains the results of archaeological work performed by the Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) for the National Park Service (NPS) under Contract Numbers: 1443PX7600-97053 and 1443PX7600-98028. Both projects were carried out under Texas Historical Commission Permit Number 1841. The bulk of the report deals with the results of shovel testing and archaeological excavations conducted as part of the Indian Quarters Stabilization project at Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo (41BX3) for the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Appendix 1 of this report contains the results of shovel testing and the monitoring of sign removal and installation conducted at Mission San Juan, Mission Espada, Mission Concepcion, and Mission San Jose as part of the Missions Signage Removaillnstallation Project. Mission San Jose is located ca. seven miles south of downtown San Antonio on a high terrace overlooking the west bank of the San Antonio River. On October 27 and 29, 1997, CAR personnel excavated a total of 3 9 shovel tests (ST) along the southern, eastern, and western outer walls of the mission. The test excavations were conducted in preparation for grade alterations to be undertaken along the exterior and interior walls of the mission compound. In June and late July 1998, CAR personnel conducted excavations outside the south wall and within Room 54 adjacent to the western comer of the southeast gate of the mission. These excavations were undertaken to mitigate the impact of underpinning efforts on the southwest comer of the Southeast Gate of the mission being undertaken by the NPS through a major construction contract. The shovel testing and excavations showed that: 1) some high density artifact concentrations are present outside of the western and eastern mission walls possibly representing colonial middens; 2) a large portion of the soils and cultural materials found immediately adjacent the south wall of the mission show signs of disturbance from the Civil Works Administration (CWA) efforts to relocate the colonial foundation and outer walls of the mission; 3) much of the cultural material-bearing matrix found along the south wall of the mission, inside Room 54, is also disturbed to a depth of approximately 19 inches bs, and 4) a colonial living surface exists immediately below the disturbed zone in portions of the interior of Room 54 and under the southeast gate. Due to the urgency of the construction contractor to complete the regrading and underpinning efforts to reduce erosion and stabilize the southwest comer of the southeast gate, work on these projects proceeded concurrently and immediately following the archaeological investigations. However, it is the opinion of eAR that the regrading project impacted no intact cultural materials and, in fact, may have served to preserve, through burial, future disturbances to the deeper buried (less disturbed) colonial zone. In addition, the archaeological investigations conducted by CAR have recovered significant data and mitigated the impact of const...

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Section: Tin-glazed Waresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mission San Jose Repointing and Underpinning Project, San Antonio, Texas

Tomka¹,

Fox²,

Meissner³

1999

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“…1810 (Lister and Lister 1974:Figure 12). Called Guanajuato for the area where it was made, this ware appears on all the San Antonio mission sites and on early-nineteenth-century sites in Laredo (Folan et al 1986;Clark and Juarez 1986). Six (21 percent of tin glazed) specimens of this type were identified.…”

Section: Tin-glazed Waresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeological Investigations of Rainwater Catchment Basins along the South Wall of Mission San Jose, San Antonio, Texas

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1999

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“…To encourage settlement, Spain was readily granting lands along the Rio Grande in southwest Texas by 1750. Under the conditions of these grants, houses were to be constructed within two years (Folan et al 1986), which undoubtedly contributed to the rapid appearance of stone structures along the river and its tributaries, leading to the founding of the town of Laredo in 1755. By 1789 the Laredo census listed 800 residents, 700 of whom were of Spanish descent.…”

Section: Firebreakmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The economy centered around ranching and salt mining at Sal del Rey in present-day Hidalgo County (Anonymous n.d.:n.p. ; Clark and Juarez 1986:87-88; Folan et al 1986:6).…”

Section: Spanish Colonialmentioning

confidence: 99%