Concepción de Agreda Pueblo

Type: General Entry

Published: 1952

Updated: August 4, 2020

Concepción de Agreda, the Indian pueblo attached to Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de la Purísima Concepción de los Hainais Mission, was reorganized and named by Martín de Alarcón on his inspection tour of Texas in 1718.

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Carlos E. Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage in Texas (7 vols., Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1936–58; rpt., New York: Arno, 1976). Fray Francisco Céliz, Diary of the Alarcón Expedition into Texas, 1718–1719, trans. F. L. Hoffman (Los Angeles: Quivira Society, 1935; rpt., New York: Arno Press, 1967).

Categories:

Exploration
Boundaries and Cartography
Peoples
Native American
Religion
Catholic
Architecture
Missions
Presidios
Pueblos

Time Periods:

Spanish Texas

The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.

Winifred W. Vigness, “Concepción de Agreda Pueblo,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed June 26, 2022, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/concepcion-de-agreda-pueblo.

Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

Original Publication Date:: 1952
Most Recent Revision Date:: August 4, 2020

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