Window and Doors to a Forgotten Past
by Debra Martz
Title
Window and Doors to a Forgotten Past
Artist
Debra Martz
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Window and Doors to a Forgotten Past by Debra Martz My intentions for going to Roma, TX was to go the The Bluffs overlooking the Rio Grande as it is known as part of the world birding center of south Texas. Instead my interest switched to the history of Roma, TX. A 9 block area was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1993. There are signs and a self guided walking tour, however, this particular building was not on the guide pamphlet so I don't have the name for it nor the purpose it served. It is in the area referred to as the Wharf so it could have possibly been a warehouse.
From City of Roma www.cityofroma.net/about.html
In November 1993, the 9-square block area around Roma Plaza was designated a National Historic Landmark District, the highest designation for historic properties in the U.S. Tracing its roots to the Spanish Colonial Colonists in the 1760's, Roma contains physical reminders of over two centuries of Texas/Mexico borderlands heritage. Roma's early history is rooted in the Spanish colonial period. In 1746, Jose de Escandon received permission from the Spanish Crown to colonize Nuevo Santander, which extended from the Sierra Madre Oriental to the Gulf of Mexico and from the rainforest of Tamaulipas northward beyond the Rio Grande. By 1753,Escandon had founded the towns of Camargo, Reynosa, Revilla and Mier south of the Rio Grande and Dolores on the north bank. Followed by Laredo in 1755. The Roma National Historic Landmark District contains over 30 structures built before 1900. Each is a monument to the courageous, pioneering spirit of Spanish Colonial and Mexican settlers and the decades of subsequent prosperity as an important commercial center for this area of the Texas/Mexico borderlands.
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