Outside The Mission Walls: The Complexities Of Compound Concepcion

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.

Over the past 290 years, the compound and the lands adjacent to Mission Concepcion have seen waves of development that have altered the landscape from the rural agricultural setting of 1731 to a bustling urban district of residential and commercial development. During this time, the Mission passed from the hands of the Queretaro missionaries to Zacatecan missionaries then fully secularized to the Catholic Church. During the early 20th century a minor seminary compound, St. John’s Seminary, was constructed on mission grounds to the north and east of the mission compound. In 2016, the redevelopment of the St. John’s Seminary began a new wave of archaeological investigations that explored the reaches of the land bisected by one of San Antonio’s oldest and widest acequias and the lands once used for ranching outside the Mission.

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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