Presidio - Oldest Town in America - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

This marker is about a half mile east of Marfa on the north side of the US 67/90.

It's odd that this marker is here -- we would have thought it should have been in Presidio.

Marker Number: 8 Marker Text: At confluence of Concho and Rio Grande Rivers A settlement for over 10,000 years Site of FIRST RECORDED WAGON TRAIN CROSSING INTO TEXAS December 10, 1582 headed by Antonio de Espejo. Marker placed jointly by Texas Society Children of the American Revolution Texas Society Daughters of the American Colonists. 1961

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