Latino Conservation Week was a great success this year at the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. This year, guests had the opportunity to walk along a trail at Mission San Juan and visit with organization such as Latino Outdoors, Salsa Squad, Compost Queens, Texas...
View of Mission San Jose from the Southern Section of the Mission Plaza. This week, I began writing my first draft for a report that I will be producing for the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Writing has given me the opportunity to go...
Researchers have multiple ways to approach historical research and analysis. They can look through published secondary sources such as books, articles, and websites or they can go straight to the source and examine primary source documents such as diaries, letters, speeches, interviews, or any first...
For my internship at the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, I am tasked with researching the history of the original cemetery at Mission San Jose and the history of the small cemetery that is located in front of the church. Historically, mission cemeteries...
San Juan Acequia, Mission San Juan, San Antonio, Texas. When Landscape Architect James Oliver joined the San Antonio Missions Historical Park in 1991, he was tasked with a seemingly impossible project: to restore and revive the San Juan Acequia (irrigation canal). The seven-mile San Juan Acequia...
Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, San Antonio, Texas Hello everyone! My name is Cristobal Lopez, and I am a first-generation M.A. student in the History Department at the University of Texas at San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas. I earned my B.A. in...