Date of Award
5-1966
Document Type
Thesis open access
Abstract
Previous histories of the Alamo area have primarily emphasized the old mission chapel and the battle of the Alamo which occurred in 1836. Little attention has been given to the surrounding area which was actually the larger part of the old mission and the place where most of the events occurred. This work is a brief history of the plaza from its beginning to the present time including some of the events which influenced its development.
From open countryside to a peaceful mission courtyard; a bloody battlefield; a neglected area; a teeming transportation center with stagecoaches arriving and departing with great clatter; and finally to a commercial center; the transition of the plaza took over two hundred years. Now the plaza is the setting for important civic events and the location of the most famous monument to Texas independence, the Alamo.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Horace R., "History of Alamo Plaza From Its Beginning to the Present" (1966). Masters Theses. 3.
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/masterstheses/3