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There's no way the Alamo is the oldest building in Texas. A cursory googlin' turns up this, for example": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Juan_Capist
by chasing 8y ago
There's no way the Alamo is the oldest building in Texas. A cursory googlin' turns up this, for example":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Juan_Capistrano_(Texas) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Juan_Capistrano_(T...
- JdeBP 8y agoWhich says 1731, a few years after 1724.
- chasing 8y agoI mean, the building they use for the picture of the Alamo was built in 1744. So the whole thing's a confusing mess.
- iamjs 8y agoEspada was the first of the Spanish Missions in the region, established in 1690. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_la_Espada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_la_Es...
- fhood 8y agoThey were wrong for Maryland as well. There is a house in St Marys that is from at least 1670