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Retirement Community Near the Border
El Paso, Texas is home to a large retirement and senior vacation community located near the Mexican border.
El Paso TX History
The El Paso area was inhabited for centuries by various Indian tribes long before the Spaniards came. Spaniards in the sixteenth century found two mountain ranges rising out of the desert with a deep chasm between. They named the site El Paso del Norte (the Pass of the North). In 1598, Spain took formal possession of the entire area, which led to more than two centuries of Spanish rule.
The Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1680 sent Spanish colonists and Tigua Indians of New Mexico fleeing southward to take refuge at the pass. In 1789, the presidio of San Elizario was founded to help in the defense of the El Paso settlements against the Apaches.
With the establishment of Mexican independence from Spain in 1821, the El Paso area became a part of Mexico. In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ended the war between the U.S. and Mexico and made El Paso part of the United States.
A military post, Fort Bliss, was established in 1854. In 1859, pioneer Anson Mills completed his plat of the town of El Paso. By 1883, El Paso had become a western boomtown where scores of saloons, dance halls, gambling establishments and houses of prostitution lined the main streets. After 1900, El Paso began to shed its frontier image and develop as a modern municipality and significant industrial, commercial, and transportation center.
El Paso Texas – Thriving Retirement & Senior Vacation Community
Today, El Paso Texas is home to a thriving retirement and senior vacation community.
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