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San Antonio Missions National Historical Park featured in 49th National Park Quarter series

Founded by various Spanish Catholic orders to spread Christianity across the southwest in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the nearly 819-acre San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in south-central Texas is made up of four frontier communities. The oldest is Mission Espada, established in 1690 near present-day Augusta, but relocated to San Antonio […]