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

"The Alamo." It was about 5 a.m. on March 6, 1836, when the battle began, ending a 13-day siege in San Antonio. By 6:30 a.m., "there was not an enemy left" among the roughly 200 Texian and ...

It turns out that the very stones used to build the Alamo came from the San Antonio Zoo. Alamo officials today confirmed that limestone from a historic quarry that once existed at the zoo’s location ...

Nevertheless, accounts from Alamo eyewitnesses shed some light on Crockett's character and his role in the famous San Antonio battle. Adventurous Spirit Born in Tennessee in 1786, Crockett ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO — On the 189th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, even more history was announced related to the iconic landmark. To stream KENS 5 on your phone, you need the KENS 5 app.

It's really become this mythic story that maps onto ... The battle of the Alamo takes place in 1836, which is about 15 years or so before photography arrives in San Antonio. So when we started ...

During excavation for San Antonio Zoo's new gorilla habitat Congo Falls and The Ralston, large amounts of limestone were unearthed.