Alamo officials today confirmed that limestone from a historic quarry that once existed at the zoo’s location was excavated for construction of the Mission San Antonio de Valero’s third and final site ...

History of the Alamo The Alamo, originally known as the Mission San Antonio de Valero, has roots that stretch back to the ...

For decades, archaeologists have been searching for the source of the Alamo's limestone, which was hidden beneath the San ...

Established in 1718 as Mission San Antonio de Valero and relocated to its current location six years later, the site that came to be known as the Alamo was one of five Spanish missions built along ...

Bearing the history of Texas itself, the Mission San Antonio de Valero (known as the Alamo) has passed through multiple hands in its nearly 300-year history. It has belonged to Spain, Mexico ...

How one of San Antonio's earliest subdivisions settled by the Irish, the Irish Flats, was built and why it's nearly missing ...

The designation includes the four missions that are part of the national historical park as well as Mission San Antonio de Valero, better known as the Alamo. Read more about Community Celebrates San ...

If there's one thing San Antonio is known for, it's the Alamo. Once a Franciscan mission, it was here that 189 Texans fought and lost their lives in 1836 during a 13-day siege by Mexican ruler ...

So much so, in fact, that many people call San Antonio the "Alamo ... skull must be that of an Alamo defender. Recall, however, that the Alamo was a Spanish mission long before it served as ...

SAN ANTONIO — The ... erected and dubbed "the new Alamo," fulfilling the vision of the church’s founding pastor, Father Peter Baque. “The Alamo was the only mission church that was not ...

Alamo Plaza in San Antonio is showing signs of the future ... Opened last year next to the Palisade, the Mission Gate exhibit greets visitors at what would have been the southern gate in 1836.