Santa Rita
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PeterNoG
N 25° 57.033 W 097° 33.518
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This Texas Historical Marker is on Villanueve Street, 700 feet southwest of the Military Highway (US Hwy 281) in Brownsville, Texas.
Waymark Code: WMKB0Y
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/12/2014
Views: 6
Marker Title: Santa Rita
Address:
City: Brownsville
County: Cameron
Subject Codes: settlements; ghost towns
Year Marker Erected: 1936
Designations: na
Marker Location: From Brownsville, take Highway 281 west 1 mile then go south about 100 yards (at Villa Nueva).
Marker Size: 1936 Centennial Marker (gray granite)
Marker Number: 4586
Marker Text:
Here was
Santa Rita
First Anglo-American settlement
on lower Rio Grande and
county seat of Cameron County
1848 · · · 1849
Erected by the State of Texas
1936
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