The PA Department of Transportation has contracted with A. Folino Construction regarding the upcoming resurfacing project along Ferguson Road (from Mt. Royal Blvd. to Duncan Ave.). Work to begin in mid August... Read on...
In 1740, the Lipan Apache Band village site was spotted some 50 miles Northwest of todays San Antonio, Texas at Tancahe Camp on the Rio Colorado de Texas. In 1757, the Colonial Spanish Government built the Mission San Saba de la Santa Cruz for the Lipan Apache Band of Texas. Mission San Saba de la Santa Cruz is found ninety miles Northeast of San Antonio, Texas and is found on the banks of the San Saba River.
Mission San Juan Bautista, which Weddle has appropriately called the Gateway to Spanish Texas, was founded on January 1, 1700, at the site of present-day Guerrero, Coahuila. By then the French had resurrected La Salle's plan to settle the lower Mississippi valley.y the time La Salle discovered that his river was not where he had landed, he was stranded on the Texas coast and had become the object of a resolute Spanish manhunt. The Spanish dispatched five sea and six land expeditions in search of La Salle's Texas Settlement.