In the early 1700s, Spain sent priests and Jesuit friars to the Mexican territory that covered present day Texas. They built a series of forts or "missions" along the San Antonio River. The Mission San Antonio de Valero became the Alamo. the site of a historic battle. Mission Concepcion, Mission San Jose and San Juan and Espada are still surviving as well as a ancient aqueduct built to supply water for the crops grown at each mission to make them self suffiicient for the priests and the native Mexican Indians who lived at each mission
In the early 1700s, Spain sent priests and Jesuit friars to the Mexican territory that covered present day Texas. They built a series of forts or "missions" along the San Antonio River. The Mission San Antonio de Valero became the Alamo. the site of a historic battle. Mission Concepcion, Mission San Jose and San Juan and Espada are still surviving as well as a ancient aqueduct built to supply water for the crops grown at each mission to make them self suffiicient for the priests and the native Mexican Indians who lived at each mission
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