Historic Place

Presidio Chapel of San Elizario

San Elizario · El Paso County · Dedicated 1972 · THC Atlas #2072001358

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Marker Inscription

Archeology - Historic Non-Aboriginal, Architecture, Religion

About this site

Presidio Chapel of San Elizario is a historic place in San Elizario, El Paso County, dedicated in 1972. It is one of 27 historic places documented in El Paso County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 140 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 31.5849, -106.2729 near San Elizario. The nearest cataloged historic site is San Elizario Chapel (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include San Elizario, San Elizario, and Onate, Juan de, Expedition - 1598.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2072001358. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

The Presidio Chapel of San Elizario stands on the central plaza of San Elizario, southeast of El Paso, near where the Spanish presidio of San Elizario was relocated in 1789-1790 to guard travelers along the Camino Real. Earlier chapels on the site were repeatedly ruined by Rio Grande floods in 1829 and 1852, and the present Spanish Colonial-style adobe chapel was built in 1877. Damaged by fire in 1935 and rebuilt within its surviving walls, the chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org nps.gov tshaonline.org

📍 31.5849, -106.2729 · San Elizario, El Paso County

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