Presidio de San Saba

10/11/2024

Please go to our NEW page; https://www.facebook.com/presidiodesansaba/

Our Mission Statement, the goal of the Presidio de San Sabá Restoration Corporation is to restore and preserve the history of the Presidio de San Sabá Historical site
and provide on-site, interactive experiences for students, educators and the public.

09/26/2023

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/presidiodesansaba
This is our PayPal link for a donation to the Presidio de San Sabá!! Thank you in advance for your support!!
We can not get Facebook to combine this account with our other account, please check it out our new page at this link: https://www.facebook.com/presidiodesansaba/

Go to paypal.me/presidiodesansaba and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

09/21/2022

We have a new Meta landmark page Presidio de San Sabá just created and hope you will follow it.

When Facebook changed to Meta, we lost some of the features, as well as, when we lost the Admin, John Cobb last year. So it was necessary to make a new page and hope you will follow us.
https://www.facebook.com/presidiodesansaba/

Our Mission Statement, the goal of the Presidio de San Sabá Restoration Corporation is to restore and preserve the history of the Presidio de San Sabá Historical site
and provide on-site, interactive experiences for students, educators and the public.

09/19/2022

Donation and chance to win a Danny Masters, Happy Dog Knives Commemorative Bowie Knife. Benefits the Presidio de San Saba Restoration Corporation. Raffle tickets for the Spanish Colonial Heritage Day event, Saturday, September 24, 2022, at 191 Presidio Road, Menard, Texas. No need to be present to win and drawing will be held at 4:30 p.m.

09/10/2022

We are holding our Spanish Colonial Heritage Day on Saturday, September 24, 2022. Make your plans!

Thank you Irene Van Winkle of the West Kerr Current for the nice article about our event last Saturday, September 11, 2021.

Terrell Kelley Cee Cee Blanchard Kelley John Katherine Kniffen

09/10/2022

Spain’s “New Regulations for Presidios” Change Frontier Line in Texas

On 10 September 1772, the New Regulations for Presidios were formally issued by King Charles III of Spain. They changed the settlement pattern of Texas. Since Spain had acquired the Louisiana Territory from France near the conclusion of the French and Indian War (1754-63), Texas was no longer needed as a buffer against French designs, and the expense of maintaining military establishments in East Texas could be eliminated. The New Regulations were based on a 1769 report prepared by the Marqués de Rubí after he led a massive, twenty-three-month inspection tour from Sonora to Texas. The regulations established the Provincias Internas [“Interior Provinces”], a huge semiautonomous administrative unit of nine provinces, including Texas, and a defensive cordon along the new "realistic" frontier that consisted of fifteen presidios spaced 100 miles apart. This new frontier ran from the Gulf of California to El Paso, then along the Rio Grande to San Juan Bautista, and thence to Matagorda Bay. Although San Antonio was behind the line, it was not abandoned because of obligations to Spanish settlers and converted Indians there. [The image is that of King Charles III of Spain (20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788). – Jeff Modzelewski]
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Texas State Historical Association Handbook of Texas Online articles on:

The “New Regulations for Presidios” – http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/nfn01

Presidios – http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/uqp09

The Marqués de Rubí – http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fru01

The Provincias Internas [“Interior Provinces”] - http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/nfp01

Spanish Texas - http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/nps01

09/09/2022

09/06/2022

Good information on the use of a jacal in early Texas, including at the Mission and Presidio in Menard in the 1750's.

The jacal. Made from branches and thatch roof, the jacal is often the first simple structure built on a settlement. Even in areas where trees don’t grow particularly tall, settlers are able to build jacals by making dug-outs, literally digging out the ground under the short branches and thatch roof. The institute uses the jacal as a Tejano settlement kitchen demonstration area. Jacales can reveal a lot about a settlement, and archaeologists continue to find and study jacales on historic lands. For more, info, have a look at the Handbook of Texas Online: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-mexican-vernacular-architecture

09/02/2022