You’ll find Bexar’s origins in Spanish Texas, where it began as San Fernando de Béxar in 1731 with 15 Canary Islander families and grew into Texas’ first civil settlement. The community flourished as a strategic stronghold and administrative center, housing soldiers and civilians near the San Antonio River headwaters. While modern San Antonio has absorbed much of old Bexar, you can still discover its colonial remnants, military legacy, and haunting tales from structures like the Old County Jail.
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11.1 What Indigenous Tribes Originally Inhabited the Bexar Region Before Spanish Settlement?…