You may not realize (I didn’t until I was looking for things to do with kids in San Antonio) that there are actually five historic missions, all within a very easy jaunt of one another. So we took the morning to drive and see each one.
We started with Mission Concepcion (pictured in the header). It was fascinating to wander through and realize that all five of these historic buildings are still in use as Catholic churches. So while there is some involvement with the National Park Service, it’s not all simply historic monument.
Apparently the header image is the only one I took of this mission that doesn’t have us in it. There wasn’t all that much to see — I think we spent maybe fifteen minutes walking around and through.
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Elizabeth Maddrey is a semi-reformed computer geek and homeschooling mother of two who lives in the suburbs of Washington D.C. When she isn’t writing, Elizabeth is a voracious consumer of books. She loves to write about Christians who struggle through their lives, dealing with sin and receiving God’s grace on their way to their own romantic happily ever after.
Hi Elizabeth, sounds interesting:) My year 11 (second last year of high school) students have just begun studying British settlement in the New World- we have just finished the settlement of the Virginia Colony and will continue through the founding of each of the 13 Colonies and trace through until the outbreak of the American Revolution. Unfortunately, we don’t look at Texas, so I will continue to enjoy learning about Texas history through your posts!!
Blessings:)
Oh fun! We’re going to do American history this year (me and my boys) – living within an easy drive of Jamestown and so forth will make the early British colonization an easier study :)
It’s always been interesting to me that, by and large, schools in the US don’t tend to study the Spanish colonization of the southwest and California like they do the Brits, despite the fact that the Conquistadors were here well before. (Coronado was in the 1500s) I suppose it’s because breaking from Spain isn’t what formed the US (they formed independent countries that then later became states). But still.
Hi Elizabeth! As a retired American Literature teacher, I enjoy your historical travel log of Texas. One state I have not yet visited. Your comment to Wemble is so true about US students not studying Spanish colonization in history nor through literature. I wish you and your boys the best in their studies. Hope you also have a chance to visit St. Louis, the Arch, and Museum of Westward Expansion. Or Springfield, Illinois and the Abraham Lincoln Museum. So much history, but so little time to explore all the aspects. Enjoy this Pentecost Sunday. Blessings.
Hi Wemble! Enjoy your Australian teacher posts. Have visited schools in Japan, Switzerland, and Germany, so I am fascinated to learn how other countries approach geography and world history. Thanks for sharing. Congrats for being the May gift card winner. With school in session hope you can find some time to relax and read. Our grandkids last of school for this school year is Wednesday. Best wishes.
So little time to explore indeed! I definitely would like to hit the places you mentioned — St Louis isn’t an awful drive so that’s possible. I need to do some road trip planning :)
how wonderful that you went to those missions. i have wanted to do this type of thing for years, but, well life has always stepped in. have a fantastic Sunday
I didn’t know there were so many in that one area! Wow! The oldest place I’ve gone is to St. Augustine, and there’s a lot to see there!!! I’ve been to old churches in Savannah and Midway. The history in them is remarkable, not just the buildings themselves, but the legacy of the people that started them.
Life has a habit of doing that doesn’t it? There are so many things to do in DC and we haven’t done all of them yet I always think there’ll be more time.
St Augustine is also lots of fun – and more of the Spanish influence too!
I want to go tour all of those missions one of these days. It sounds like fun!
I live in California, and have visited many of the Spanish missions here. I found it interesting that the one in your photo is so “dirty” looking. Ours either were built of different stone/adobe/whatever, or kept painted over the years (many of them are still functioning Catholic churches too), because they look a lot cleaner!
Oh I hope you do!
The Adobe on all of these is missing. There are a few places on the one I’m featuring next week that have it and it is a completely different look. But yes, these are all mostly dark stone and a very different look than the California missions.
That is amazing that they are all still used as churches to this day!
Thanks Renate, I also enjoy reading your posts sharing your teaching experiences.
Blessings:)
Isn’t it? I loved knowing that!