San Antonio, Texas, USA
1895 - San Antonio

San Antonio, a city, the capital of Bexar co., Tex., is on San Antonio River, 80 miles S.W. of Austin. It is near lat. 29° 30' N., Lon. 98° 25' W. It was in 1890 the most populous city of the state except Dallas. It contains a court-house, a United States arsenal, 4 national banks, 4 other banking-houses, 2 large Roman Catholic colleges or seminaries, a Roman Catholic cathedral, 11 churches, and many fine residences. Three daily and 3 or 4 weekly news papers are published here. San Antonio is surrounded by a fertile country, of which cattle, cotton, wool, and hides are the staple products. It is on the Southern Pacific, International & Great Northern, and Aransas Pass Railways, 256 miles W. of Galveston. Here are military head quarters, with a quartermaster's depot. San Antonio has extensive water-power, several flouring-mills, breweries, and tanneries. It is built on the site of Fort Alamo, celebrated in the history of Texas. It has a large public park, called San Pedro. Pop. in 1860, 8235; in 1880, 20,550; in 1890, 37,673.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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