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.
SANTA CRUZ DE SAN SABÃ MISSION. Franciscan missionaries established Mission Santa Cruz de San SabÃ¡ in 1757 to Christianize the eastern Apache Indians. The site, rediscovered in the fall of 1993 and proved by archeologists in January 1994, is on the San Saba River about three miles east of the present town of Menard and four miles from the ruins of San Luis de las Amarillas Presidio, which was built to protect the mission.