Archaeology Along San Pedro Creek, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Famed to the Forgotten: Exploring San Antonio’s Storied History Through Urban Archeology" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

San Pedro Creek has long played an important role in the development of San Antonio. The abundance and variety of resources in the vicinity of the six springs that give birth to the stream served as an ideal site for the establishment of the first mission in San Antonio, Mission San Antonio de Valero, on ground previously occupied by indigenous groups. Over the following 300 years, San Pedro Creek has been a focal point for both residential and commercial development in San Antonio. Through archaeological monitoring and testing investigations of the ongoing San Pedro Creek Improvements Project, archaeologists have documented the evolution of San Antonio from a Spanish Colonial center, to the early days of the industrial revolution led by waves of European immigrants, the establishment of a vibrant African Methodist Episcopal Church following emancipation, and the full-scale industrialization of manufacturing within the multi-cultural context of the late-19th century.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• From the Famed to the Forgotten: Exploring San Antonio’s Storied History Through Urban Archeology   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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