Dón Antonio Gil Y'Barbo - Nacogdoches, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 31° 36.170 W 094° 39.288
15R E 343015 N 3497601
A prominent Spanish trader who led a group of settlers to Nacogdoches in 1779. Later that summer, Nacogdoches received designation from Spain as a pueblo, or town, thereby making it the first “town” in Texas.
Waymark Code: WMQXZ6
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/12/2016
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Y’Barbo was named Lt. Governor of the new town and established the rules and laws under which the city was governed. He laid out streets with the intersecting El Camino Real and El Calle del Norte as his central point. On the main thoroughfare he built a stone house for use in his trading business. The house, or Old Stone Fort as it is called today, became a gateway from the United States to the vast Texas Frontier.