I Thought I Hated Texas

San Antonio APA Conference - part next

This Heritage Tourism thing is a big deal in Texas.  It builds on the idea and success of Mainstreet Programs and its like a fractal layer up from that.  It creates partnerships and a synergy between historic places, cultures and healthy local economies.   We do it in New Mexico, but arguably not as well. 

San Antonio has a lot in common with Albuquerque including early Spanish settlement and large hispanic and native populations.  The eastern branch of the Camino Real went to Louisiana through Texas. 

San Pedro Springs Park was a camp site along the camino and earlier Indian trails in modern San Antonio.  It's the second oldest park in the nation after Boston Commons, set aside by the Spanish government in 1729.  A volunteer organization, Friends of San Pedro Springs Park, with a larger San Antonio Parks Foundation, helps with restoration of features within the 46 acre park site and on "communicating its long history". 

 

Comments

[Inky Ink, Inc.]

What's that sort of blue/green shimmery stuff in those photos? Looks kind of familiar but I can't quite place it...

[Hector Cardenas Pres. Friends of San Pedro Springs Park]

Thanks for the great comments about our park.
see our website under construction: fspsp.org