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The Alamo's Historic Past
Originally named Misión San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo served as home to
missionaries and their Indian converts for nearly seventy years.Construction
began on the present site in 1724. In 1793, Spanish officials secularized
San Antonio's five missions and distributed their lands to the remaining
Indian residents. These men and women continued to farm the fields — once
the mission's but now their own — and participated in the growing community |
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