Texas Missions and Settlements
Coach EdwardsTexas History
Lets Make a Foldable
• Take 4 sheets of paper.• Fold the sheets of
paper together showing a little flap on each sheet.
• Number each of the Sheets.
• In your own handwriting label each of the sheets with a mission name.
• Using each of the pages place your notes on each of the missions on the corresponding page.
• Illustrate each of the pages as you see each of the mission.
• Staple the pages like a book
What are the Missions of Texas?
• Corpus Christi de La Ysleta.
• San Francisco de los Tejas.
• San Juan Bautista
• San Antonio de Valero
• Nuestra Senora del Pillar de lo Adaes
• La Bahia• San Xavier
Missions• Santa Cruz de
San Saba
Corpus Christi De la Ysleta
• Was built in 1682. • Was the first
permanent mission established in Texas.
• Was built in present day El Paso.
• Started the Spanish Mission Movement
San Francisco de los Tejas
• Founded on June 1, 1690.
• Founded by Father Damian Massanet and Angelina.
• The first Spanish Mission in East Texas
• Built in Response to Fort LaSalle.
• It served the Tejas Indians
San Juan Bautista
• Was Founded on the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass in 1699.
• A complex of 3 missions a presidio and a town
• Served as supply station for east Texas expeditions.
• Known as the “Mother of Missions”.
San Antonio de Valero
• Founded by Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Oliveres
• Became later known as the Alamo
• Presidio San Antonio de Bexar was built in 1718 under the direction of Martin de Alarcon.
Nuestra Senora del Pillar de lo Adaes
• Marcus de San Miguel de Aguago founded
• Site is near French Post Natchitoches, Near present day Robiline, Louisiana.
• Unofficial Capital of Texas in 1722 and remained for 50 years
La Bahia
• Was built in the Ruins of LaSalle’s Fort.
• Moved on the San Antonio River near present day Goliad.
• Would later become the site for a key battle in the Texas Revolution- the Battle of Goliad and the Goliad Massacre
San Xavier Missions
• Were built on the San Gabriel River near present day Rockdale between the years of 1748- 1751.
• It was a group of 3 Missions.
• It served the Tonkawas and others.
• Apaches raided the settlements which cause the missions to fail.
San Cruz de San Saba-Was founded in 1757 near present day Menard.-Wanted to convert the Apaches into Christians.- Mission eventually failed with the attacks of the Comanche, failure to Chrisitianize the natives, and lack of supplies
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