Site of First Mission in Texas

Historical marker location:

Ysleta, Texas

( Located at entrance to Corpus Christi de la Ysleta Del Sur Mission; Ysleta)

Marker installed: 1962

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.

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