San Vicente was a village located in Brewster County, Texas within the protruding big bend of the Rio Grandé river.[1] The village was geographically 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the San Vicente Crossing in present-day Big Bend National Park. The uninhabited site provides a panoramic view of the Chisos Mountains and the Sierra San Vicente migrating into Northern Mexico.

San Vicente, Texas
Ghost Town
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Coordinates: 29°09′14″N 103°01′12.5″W
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Brewster
Elevation	1,896 ft (578 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes	79834
Area code	432
GNIS feature ID	1367543

Historical Citations of San Vicente

San Vicente settlement established cemeteries north and south of the village vicinity encompassing 1.6 miles (2.6 km) between the memorial grounds.[2][3] The south funerary plot, also known as the San Vicente Crossing cemetery, has a proximity to the San Vicente Crossing on the Rio Grandé river.[4][5]

Presidio of San Vicente

On September 10, 1772, the Spanish Empire issued new regulations for presidios constructed in New Spain along the southern boundaries of the Rio Grandé river basin in the Northern Mexico territories.[6][7] Presidio de San Vicente was established in 1773 offering sanctuary for Spanish Texas pioneers seeking passage through the San Vicente Crossing at the Rio Grandé river.[8][9] The presidio fortification was an adobe and pueblo style structure serving as a garrison while providing a defensive wall against the native plains inhabitants during the Mexican Indian Wars.[10] The Spanish Presidio coerced the territorial development of New Spain in the Chihuahua and Coahuila territories of the Spanish America colonies while fortifying the Spanish missions in Texas.[11]

See also

References

Audiobook Bibliography

• History of the Conquest of Mexico public domain audiobook at LibriVox

Bibliography

• Solís, Antonio de (1724). The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Internet Archive. London, England: T. Woodward and J. Hooke. OCLC 1046514488.
• Solís, Antonio de (1738). The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Internet Archive. Vol. I. London, England: John Osborn. OCLC 733087530.
• Solís, Antonio de (1738). The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Internet Archive. Vol. II. London, England: John Osborn. OCLC 733087530.
• Bonnycastle, Richard Henry (1818). Spanish America; A Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental & Insular [Account of Spanish America]. Internet Archive. Vol. I. London, England: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. OCLC 298513594.
• Bonnycastle, Richard Henry (1818). Spanish America; A Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental & Insular [Account of Spanish America]. Internet Archive. Vol. II. London, England: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. OCLC 981299968.
• Bonnycastle, Richard Henry (1819). Spanish America; A Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental & Insular [Account of Spanish America]. Internet Archive. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Abraham Small Publisher. OCLC 1157455578.
• Bolton, Herbert Eugene (1915). Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century: Studies in Spanish Colonial History and Administration. Internet Archive. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. OCLC 558670456.
• Haskell, Marion L. (January 1, 1918). "Review Of Rubí's Inspection of the Frontier Presidios of New Spain, 1766-1768". Internet Archive. Historical Society of Southern California. JSTOR 41168757.

External links

• United States Geological Survey. San Vicente, TX quadrangle, San Vicente, Texas (Topographic map). Reston, VA: United States Geological Survey – via TopoQuest.

• "Big Bend Presidios". Texas Beyond History. University of Texas at Austin.
• Ivey, James E. "Presidios of the Big Bend Area" (PDF). National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior.
• "Regulations, San Ildefonso, September 10, 1772" [The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States]. New Mexico History Museum. New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
• "Spanish Missions, Presidios, and Roads in the 17th and 18th Centuries". Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. University of Texas at Austin. 1976.
• "The Gateway Missions" [Attempts at Native Conversions along the Rio Grande]. Texas Beyond History. University of Texas at Austin.
• "The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States". Threads of Memory Exhibition ~ New Mexico History Museum. New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.

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