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Spanish colonizer of South Texas dies in Mexico City
On this day in 1770, José de Escandón, the "father" of the lower Rio
Grande valley, died in Mexico City. Escondón was the colonizer and first
governor of Nuevo Santander, a colony that extended from Mexico across the
Rio Grande to the Nueces River. He founded over twenty towns or villas and
a number of missions in the colony, including Camargo, Reynosa, Mier, and
Revilla south of the Rio Grande, and Laredo and Nuestra Señora de los
Dolores Hacienda north of the Rio Grande.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- ESCANDON, JOSE DE
- NUEVO SANTANDER
- NUESTRA SENORA DE LOS DOLORES HACIENDA
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Spanish regulations changes frontier line in Texas (1772)
- Washerwoman buys valuable Dallas property (1869)
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