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# El Paso County Historical Society

The driving force of the historic scene of El Paso since 1954

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## Posts

- [Password LXII, 2018](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/09/29/password-lxii-2018/) - Password Volume LXII, Number 1-4 from 2018 Volume LXII, No. 1, Spring 2018 Alamito and Tays Place: El Paso's First Public Housing Projects by George Torok William Manning's death and the Birth of the Manning-Stoudenmire Feud b Jaime Portillo Dzongs of the Desert, Part 4 by P.J. Vierra The El Paso Police Department Shoulder Patch
- [Password LXIII, 2019](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/09/29/password-lxiii-2019/) - Password Volume LXIII, Number 1-4 from 2019 Volume LXIII, No. 1, Spring 2019 Remembering "lalo": Abelardo Delgado, Chicano Activist and Poet by Abbie Weiser The Presidents of UTEP, Part 2: A primer by P.J. Vierra Louise Seymour: El Paso's Farmer Lady by Joseph Long El Paso's First Mounted Patrol Officers and First Horse-Drawn Patrol Wagon
- [Password LXIV, 2020](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/07/29/password-lxiv-2020/) - Password Volume LXIV, Number 1-4 from 2020 Volume LXIV, No. 1, Spring 2020 Ralph Peer's "El Paso Session" of 1929: The Cowgirl and Cowboy Auditions and the Recordings for Victor Records by Bob Chessey "Message in a Bottle: A Note about "Hard Times" in El Paso in 1894 by Mark Cioc-Ortega Volume LXIV No. 2,
- [Password LXVI, 2022](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/03/13/password-lxvi-2022/) - Password Volume LXVI, Number 1-4 from 2022 Volume LXVI, No. 1, Spring 2022 Welcome to the Food Issue By Lisa Heldke Food Stories From Old Photographs By Claudia Rivers An El Paso Community Cookbook: How We Cook in El Paso By Joseph Longo Culinary Collections By Abbie Weiser Comida de Vigilia: Lenten dishes from the
- [Password LXV, 2021](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/03/13/password-lxv-2021/) - Password Volume LXV, Number 1-4 from 2021 Volume LXV, No. 1, Spring 2021 Tribute to Leon Metz By Trish Long Leon Metz, Archivist By Claudia Rivers Origin of the Society By Leon C. Metz Volume LXV, No. 2, Summer 2021 Volume LXV, No. 3, Fall 2021 Volume LXV, No. 4, Winter 2021 2021 Hall of
- [Plaza Classic Film Festival returns. See what's on the schedule including 'People of the Crossing' documentary](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/07/19/el-paso-plaza-classic-film-festival-schedule-people-of-the-crossing-documentary-local-flavor-showcase/) - The Plaza Classic Film Festival will return for year from July 20 until July 20, 2023. Look below for some films that have El Paso ties or interest. ‘People of the Crossing: The Jews of El Paso ‘ The one-hour documentary, by California filmmaker Isaac Artenstein, will make its world premiere during the Plaza Classic
- [Passwords online](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/11/23/passwords-online/) - Please visit our updated passwords online page by clicking here. We are happy to make the complete set of "Password" available to our members online. This material is copyrighted and we ask that you do not share or reproduce it without prior written permission from the Historical Society.
- [El Paso County Historical Society will be closed on Fourth of July. Check out the Declaration of Independence](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/07/03/fourth-of-july-4-closed-hours-el-paso-county-historical-society/) - The El Paso County Historical Society will be closed on Fourth of July. We will resume regular business hours on Thursday, July 6, 2023 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Read the Declaration of Independence
- [Celebrate Fourth of July in El Paso with food trucks, classic cars at block party on July 1](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/06/26/fourth-of-july-events-things-to-do-el-paso-block-party-food-trucks-cars-show-july-1/) - Come out and have some fun during a Fourth of July community block party from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the historic Texaco gas station located at 2871 Grant Ave. The Independence Day celebration will include food trucks, a car show and more. The classic cars will be on display from Street Memories, Detroit
- [El Paso County Historical Society currently accepting 2023 Hall of Honor nominations](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/05/04/el-paso-county-historical-society-currently-accepting-2023-hall-of-honor-nominations/) - The El Paso County Historical Society is currently accepting nominations for inductees to the 2023 Hall of Honor. Nominees should be considered outstanding individuals of character, vision, courage, and creative spirit. They must have lived in El Paso County and have consistently done the unusual which deserves to be remembered or have made El Paso
- [Tickets on sale for El Paso County Historical Society’s 2026 Hall of Honor, November 8, 2026 at El Paso Country Club at 5:30 P.M.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2026/04/30/el-paso-county-historical-society-2024-hall-of-honor-tickets-purchase-schedule/) - Tickets for the El Paso County Historical Society’s Hall of Honor banquet are on sale now. The event will be held on Sunday, November 8th, 2026 from 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the El Paso Country Club. Where: El Paso Country Club at 5000 Country Club Place. When: Nov. 8, 2026 Time: Reception and Silent Auction
- [El Paso County Historical Society Announces 2026 Hall of Honor Inductees](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2026/07/21/el-paso-county-historical-society-announces-2026-hall-of-honor-inductees/) - Hal Marcus, Cindy Ramos-Davidson, Dr. Cindy Stout, and Wayne Thornton to be recognized at annual banquet The El Paso County Historical Society will induct four distinguished El Pasoans into the El Paso Hall of Honor during its annual banquet on Sunday, November 8, at 5:30 pm at the El Paso Country Club. This year's Hall
- [Texas Oral History Association Coming to El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2026/05/06/texas-oral-history-association-coming-to-el-paso/) - Join us this September at the Rio Grande Campus, El Paso Community College for the 15th Annual Texas Oral History Association 2026 Conference. The Texas Oral History Association (TOHA) promotes the use of oral history research and publishes the journal Sound Historian. What: Texas Oral History Association Annual Conference When: September 11-12, 2026 Where: El
- [El Paso County Historical Society now accepting nominations for 2026 Hall of Honor inductees](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2026/04/08/el-paso-county-historical-society-2024-hall-of-honor-now-accepting-nominations/) - This year's Hall of Honor Banquet is scheduled for Sunday, November 1. The deadline to submit a nomination is May 31, 2026, Nominees should be considered outstanding individuals of character, vision, courage, and creative spirit. They must have lived in El Paso County and have consistently done the unusual which deserves to be remembered or
- [Jane Burges Perrenot Research Center Open to the Public](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2026/04/08/jane-burges-perrenot-research-center-open-to-the-public/) - The Jane Burges Perrenot Research Libary at the El Paso County Historical Society is open three days a week and by appointment. Whether you're conducting academic research, tracking your family's genealogy, or just interested in browsing our extensive collection of books, photos, maps, and yearbooks, please stop by for a visit. Admission is Free: Tuesday,
- [El Paso County Historical Society to close for holiday season from Dec. 23 - Jan. 5, reopen January 6, 2026](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/12/21/el-paso-county-historical-society-closed-holiday-hours/) - The El Paso County Historical Society will be closed from Dec. 23 through Jan. 5 for the holiday season. We will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Research requests and questions: If you have any questions or research requests, please email us at elpasocountyhistory@gmail.com . The
- [Local history organizations to host free events celebrating the railroad in El Paso. Here's what to know.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2024/04/19/free-events-el-paso-train-union-pacific-foundation-exhibits/) - Union Pacific Foundation Sponsoring Railroad Exhibit at El Paso County Historical Society El Paso, Texas – The El Paso County Historical Society and the Railroad and Transportation Museum of El Paso are hosting free events in April telling the story of the railroad in El Paso. The Railroad and Transportation Museum is hosting an El
- [Need a holiday gift? El Paso County Historical Society selling greeting cards with historic scenes](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/11/16/el-paso-christmas-holiday-gift-ideas-greeting-cards/) - Need to get a holiday gift for someone? Check out these greeting cards with historic images of El Paso. The El Paso County Historical Society is selling a pack of 20 greeting cards and mailing envelopes with historic photos of the city including winter and Christmas scenes. The pack includes five different El Paso scenes
- [Sold out - El Paso County Historical Society to Induct El Pasoans into the Hall of Honor](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/10/30/el-paso-county-historical-society-induct-el-pasoans-hall-of-honor/) - Ticket sales for Hall of Honor are now sold out. Thank you for your support! EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso County Historical Society will induct six El Pasoans into the El Paso Hall of Honor on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023 at 3 pm at the El Paso Country Club. Among the individuals to enter
- [Save the date for 2023 El Paso County Historical Society Hall of Honor. Here's what to know.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/08/15/2023-el-paso-county-historical-society-hall-of-honor-nov-5-tickets-honorees/) - Tickets for the 2023 Hall of Honor are now sold out. This year’s banquet will be held at the El Paso Country Club on Sunday, November 5, 2023, at 3 p.m. The event will include a reception, dinner, awards presentation, and silent auction. This year we will include the 2023 honorees in our celebration. Honoree's
- [Sold out: El Paso County Historical Society's Hall of Honor fundraiser tickets now on sale](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/09/06/el-paso-county-historical-societys-hall-of-honor-fundraiser-tickers-on-sale/) - Update: Tickets for the El Paso County Historical Society's Hall of Honor banquet are sold out. The event will be held on at 3 p.m. on November 5, 2023 at the El Paso Country Club. The event will honor four individuals who have made significant contributions to the history of El Paso. How to purchase
- [El Paso County Historical Society announces 2023 Hall of Honor honorees](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/10/11/el-paso-county-historical-society-hall-of-honors-tickets-honorees-announcement/) - The El Paso County Historical Society is pleased to announce the selection of honorees for the 2023 Hall of Honor: Charles N. Bassett, Belle Critchett, Lillian Crouch, Raymond Telles Jr., and Patricia & Richard Worthington. This year we will be celebrating the 2023 honorees at the El Paso Country Club, 15000 Country Club Pl, El
- [Announcing this years 2023 Hall of Honor sponsors](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/10/26/el-paso-county-historical-society-2023-hall-of-honor-sponsors/) - Ticket sales for Hall of Honor are now sold out. Thank you for your support! The El Paso County Historical Society would like to thank this years 2023 Hall of Honor sponsors. This years sponsors include: H-Texas - Silver Sponsor Learn more about H-Texas: https://networks.h-net.org/h-texas Freeport-McMoRan - Bronze Sponsor Learn more about Freeport-McMoRan: https://fcx.com/ raiz
- [Meet the El Paso County Historical Society 2022/2023 Hall of Honor inductees](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/10/30/meet-el-paso-county-historical-society-2022-2023-hall-of-honor-inductees/) - Among the individuals to enter the Hall of Honor is Raymond L. Telles, Jr., Belle Christie Critchett, Lillian W. Crouch, Charles N. Bassett, Patricia Worthington, and Richard Worthington. Charles N. Bassett - 2022 Honoree: El Paso Businessman and Banker Charles Nebeker Bassett (1880-1944) was an El Paso businessman and banker who helped develop downtown El Paso as
- [Sunset Heights Tour of Homes in El Paso set for October 7, 2023. Here's what you need to know.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/09/05/el-paso-texas-sunset-heights-tour-of-homes-october-2023-heres-what-to-know/) - The Annual Sunset Heights Tour of Homes is back! The tour is set for Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023 from 12 p.m.- 4 p.m. Funds raised by the event go to the Sunset Heights Neighborhood Improvement Association used to assist neighborhood residents with their properties, provide neighborhood activities, and maintain the historical integrity of the neighborhood.
- [Join us Sept. 21 in Downtown El Paso for Good and Evil on the Streetcar Line: Tales of People and Places](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/09/18/streetcar-tour-downtown-el-paso-texas-tales-of-people-and-places/) - Learn about Tales of People and Places as told by Fred Evans on the Streetcar with the El Paso County Historical Society. The tour is free, but you must RSVP in advance to attend this tour on September 21. Track the Streetcar by downloading the free Ride Sun Metro mobile app. If you go: What: Good
- [Join the El Paso County Historical Society at this years Border Archives Bazaar in Las Cruces on September 23](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/09/05/el-paso-county-historical-society-border-archives-bazaar-las-cruces-new-mexico-september-23/) - Join the El Paso County Historical Society at this year's Border Archives Bazaar on September 23 at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. The event is a free, fun and educational event that brings visitors face to face with fascinating historical materials from the border region. It will be held
- [Hispanic Heritage Month: A Tribute to Abraham Chavez Jr. by Conrey Bryson from 1981](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/09/15/hispanic-heritage-month-a-tribute-to-abraham-chavez-jr-by-conrey-bryson-from-1981/) - In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the El Paso County Historical Society is looking back at past Password articles. Hispanic Heritage Month is observed from Sept. 15 through Oct. 14, ACCORDING TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. It began in “1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson.” Tribute to Abraham Chavez Jr. by Conrey Bryson
- [Celebrate El Paso's 150th sesquicentennial anniversary with these events.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/07/26/el-pasos-150th-sesquicentennial-anniversary-things-to-do-events-celebrate/) - Here's a look at the upcoming events celebrating El Paso's 150th sesquicentennial anniversary. Museum of History Remembering August 3rd August 3 – September 2 510 N Santa Fe Street Tacos Y Conversos August 14 510 N Santa Fe Street Still We Rise, Merienda Talk: Black Hair At Estine’s Eastside Barbershop August 16 510 N Santa
- [Passwords online](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/05/14/passwords-online-2/) - We are happy to make the complete set of "Password" available to our members online. This material is copyrighted and we ask that you do not share or reproduce it without prior written permission from the Historical Society. VOLUME I, 1956 VOLUME II, 1957 VOLUME III, 1958 VOLUME IV, 1959 VOLUME V, 1960 VOLUME VI,
- [Password LXI, 2017](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/03/28/password-xli-2017/) - Password Volume LXI, Number 1-4 from 2017 Volume LXI, No. 1, Spring 2017 The Development of the Ysleta Independent School District 1807-1963 by Joseph LongoRebuilding the School of Mines: Worrell's Mountain by P.J. VierraEl Paso's First Police Motorcycle by Lt. James Edward Agan Volume LXI No. 2, Summer 2017 "A Delightful Country in the Summer":
- [Early newspaper clippings](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/04/01/early-newspaper-clippings/) - 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 January – October 1890 1891 1892-1895
- [Clippings-People](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/08/13/clippings-people/) - A Aaronson, Abe Abales, Laura Lee Abraham, F. Murray Adams, William Aguirre, Arturo Aikman, Duncan Ainsa, Evelyn Alarcon, Francisca (Dona Paca) Alarcon,Lorenzo Amstater,Shirlee Anderson, Clyde Applegate, Howard Armendariz, Albert Armstrong,Reba Arny, William Ashley Family Ashley, George Attaway, Alice Aykal, Gurer Aykal, Gus Azar, Suzie B Baca, Edward Baron, David Barron,William Bassett, C.N. Battle, Joe Bean,
- [Clippings-Subject](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/08/13/clippings-subject/) - African Americans 1st Black in Area came with Spaniards. Blacks in Military Service Black Soldiers Return to El Paso Henry Flipper L.A. Nixon Elementary School McCall Center Juneteeth Agriculture Black's Nursery Cattle Ranching Dairies El Paso Nurserymen Association Lincon Dairy Livestock Show history Ostrich Farm, 1989 Pear Orchards, 1986 Prickly Pear, 1991 Purebred Guernsey herds brought
- [Women's History Month: A look back at the important contributions in El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/03/15/womens-history-month-el-paso-important-contributions-borderland-events/) - The El Paso County Historical Society looks back the the contributions women made to the region during Women's History Month.
- [Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting to be held in El Paso March 2-4, 2023](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/02/27/el-paso-texas-state-historical-association-annual-meeting-convention-center-march-2-3-4/) - The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) will host their 127th Annual Meeting in El Paso, Texas from March 2-4, 2023.
- [Women’s History Month events that are celebrating women in El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/02/28/womens-history-month-events-that-are-celebrating-women-in-el-paso/) - There are several Women's History Month events in El Paso. Here's are a few things to do to celebrate the women in your life.
- [UTEP to host Community Conversation on the Legacy of Indigenous Slavery on March 3](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/02/27/utep-to-host-community-conversation-on-the-legacy-of-indigenous-slavery-on-march-3/) - UTEP will host a Community Conversation on the Legacy of Indigenous Slavery at the Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens on Friday, March 3.
- [Black History Month: A look at El Paso County Historical Society Password articles](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/02/21/black-history-month-el-paso-county-historical-society-password-articles/) - Celebrate Black History Month by reading through some of the El Paso County Historical Society Password articles and other resources.
- [Black History Month exhibits and events in El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/02/21/black-history-month-exhibits-events-el-paso-history-art-museum-utep/) - Celebrate Black History Month with these history and art exhibits in El Paso.
- [Free event Jan. 21: Book talk at the Burges House, Rewriting Citizenship by Dr. Susan Stanfield](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/01/17/free-event-jan-21-book-talk-at-the-burges-house-rewriting-citizenship-by-dr-susan-stanfield/) - Join the El Paso County Historical Society on Jan. 21 at 11 a.m. for a book talk with Dr. Susan Stanfield, Assistant Professor of History at UTEP, on her new book Rewriting Citizenship. About the event What Makes a Citizen? Learn how women in early American history used print culture to define their role as
- [Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas - Celebrate Joseph Magoffin's Birthday](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2023/01/04/unflinching-courage-pioneering-women-who-shaped-texas-celebrate-joseph-magoffins-birthday/) - The El Paso County Historical Society will be co-sponsoring along with the Magoffin Home State Historic Site the event at the Magoffin Home State Historic Site in El Paso. From the Texas Historical Commission: "Former NATO Ambassador and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison relates the untold history of how dynamic women shaped Texas through their
- [El Paso County Historical Society holiday hours, last minute gifts ideas](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/12/19/el-paso-county-historical-society-holiday-hours-last-minute-gifts-ideas/) - Looking for a last minute gift for the history lover in your life? Here are a few options. Books Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands Educating the Enemy by Jonna Perrillo, PhD tells the story of 144 children of Nazi scientists who moved to El Paso in 1946 as
- [Free event Dec. 3: Book talk at the Burges House, Educating the Enemy by Jonna Perrillo, PhD](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/11/28/el-paso-free-event-dec-3-book-educating-the-enemy-jonna-perrillo-phd/) - Join the El Paso County Historical Society on Dec. 3 at 11 a.m. for a free book talk with UTEP Professor Dr. Jonna Perrillo and her new book Educating the Enemy
- [Christmas Dinner Menu From 1918](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/12/07/christmas-dinner-menu-from-1918/) - Updated: Dec. 19, 2022 Helen O’Shea Keleher recipes This is a page from a loose-leaf notebook with handwritten notes on nutrition, foods and recipes that belonged to Helen O’Shea Keleher. Dinner menu Consommé/Bread Sticks Olives/Salted Peanuts Roasted Goose/Potatoes and stuffing Cream of Lima Bean/Peas Chicken croquette/Dressed lettuce Cheese straws/English Plum Pudding Sauce/Assorted Cookies Bon Bon/Café Noir Roasted Goose
- [El Paso Christmas Shopping 'Rush' - 1926](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/13/el-paso-christmas-shopping-rush-1926/) - The following article, based on a December 22, 1926 clipping in the El Paso Herald, was written by Bob Chessey, El Paso historian. It details the "Christmas Rush" that occurred 90 years ago next week.
- [1976: An Oral History - Pedro Gonzalez remembers the revolution](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/10/07/el-paso-oral-history-pedro-gonzalez-remembers-the-revolution-pancho-villa/) - In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the El Paso County Historical Society is looking back at past Password articles. Hispanic Heritage Month is observed from Sept. 15 through Oct. 14, according to The Library of Congress. It began in "1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson." Pedro Gonzalez remembers the revolution Note: The
- [Native American Heritage Month: Ysleta del Sur Pueblo](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/11/24/native-american-heritage-month-ysleta-del-sur-pueblo/) - In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the El Paso County Historical Society is posting past PASSWORD articles on Ysleta del Sur Pueblo.
- [Sunset Heights Tour of Homes set for October 1, 2022. Here's what to know.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/08/25/el-paso-sunset-heights-tour-of-homes-tickets-information-october-1-2022/) - The Annual Sunset Heights Tour of Homes in El Paso is set for Saturday, Oct. 1, from 12 p.m.- 4 p.m.
- [Join us for a History of People and Places tour on the Streetcar in Downtown El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/07/07/join-us-for-a-history-of-people-and-places-tour-on-the-streetcar-in-downtown-el-paso/) - Learn about historical locations and peoples on the Streetcar with the El Paso County Historical Society. The tour is free. Here's where to RSVP.
- [New exhibit centers on El Paso & World War II at El Paso County Historical Society](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/04/25/el-paso-county-historical-society-world-war-ii-exhibit-may-7/) - The exhibit will showcase some of the El Paso County Historical Society's WWII archival holdings - including photographs, letters and other historical objects.
- [Events to celebrate Women's History Month in El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/03/12/el-paso-womens-history-month-historical-society-utep-epcc-public-library/) - Are you looking for ways to celebrate Women's History Month in El Paso? Here's a look at what the events celebrating women's accomplishments in El Paso.
- [Notice of Special Meeting of Members of El Paso County Historical Society](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/02/26/el-paso-county-historical-society-special-meeting-members/) - Notice is hereby given that a special meeting in lieu of the annual meeting of the members of El Paso County Historical Society, Inc., a Texas non-profit corporation will be held at 11 AM on Saturday, March 5, 2022 in person and as a virtual meeting on the Zoom virtual meeting platform. This annual meeting
- [EPCHS Honors Sunset Heights Neighborhood Improvement Association](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/10/22/epchs-honors-sunset-heights-neighborhood-improvement-association/) - October 22, 2020— The El Paso County Historical Society is pleased to name the Sunset Heights Neighborhood Improvement Association as the recipient of the 2020 Chris P. Fox Award. Mr. Fox, also known as Mr. El Paso, served as El Paso County Sheriff and was well known for his efforts to promote the city both locally
- [The Lorenzen Family Collection: 'How We Cook in El Paso;](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/09/13/the-lorenzen-collection-how-we-cook-in-el-paso/) - By Joseph Longo This copy of the 1926 cookbook "How We Cook in El Paso" is part of the Lorenzen Family Collection. It belonged to Ada Lane Lorenzen, who was an active civic leader and served as president of the El Paso Woman's Club. She was also a charter member of the El Paso County
- [History of People and Places streetcar tour: Join us September 22 in Downtown El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/09/05/el-paso-history-people-places-downtown-streetcar-tour-september-22/) - Learn about historical locations and peoples on the Streetcar with the El Paso County Historical Society. The tour is free, but you must RSVP in advance to attend this tour on September 22. The event is hosted on Streetcar 1511 unless there is an unforeseen mechanical or maintenance issue. Track the Streetcar by downloading the
- [Join us October 27 in Downtown El Paso for another History of People and Places Streetcar Tour](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/10/11/join-us-october-27-in-downtown-el-paso-for-another-history-of-people-and-places-streetcar-tour/) - Learn about historical locations and peoples on the Streetcar with the El Paso County Historical Society. The tour is free, but you must RSVP in advance to attend this tour on October 27. The event is hosted on Streetcar 1511 unless there is an unforeseen mechanical or maintenance issue. Track the Streetcar by downloading the
- [El Paso County Historical Society to be at Border Archives Bazaar in Las Cruces, N.M.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/10/18/el-paso-county-historical-society-border-archives-bazaar-las-cruces-new-mexico/) - Join the El Paso County Historical Society at this year's Border Archives Bazaar on October 22 at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. The event is a free, fun and educational event that brings visitors face to face with fascinating historical materials from the border region. It will be held
- [1972: Password salutes José Cisneros](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/10/08/1972-el-paso-password-salutes-jose-cisneros-hispanic-heritage-month/) - In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the El Paso County Historical Society is looking back at past Password articles. Hispanic Heritage Month is observed from Sept. 15 through Oct. 14, According to the Library of Congress. It began in “1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson.” Password salutes José B. Cisneros By: Helen Hicks
- [History of People and Places streetcar tour: Join us August 18 in Downtown El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/08/01/history-of-people-and-places-streetcar-tour-join-us-august-18-in-downtown-el-paso/) - Learn about historical locations and peoples on the Streetcar with the El Paso County Historical Society. The tour is free, but you must RSVP in advance to attend this tour on August 18. The event is hosted on Streetcar 1511 unless there is an unforeseen mechanical or maintenance issue. Track the Streetcar by downloading the
- [Plan A Visit to the El Paso County Historical Society](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/10/frontpage-plan-a-visit/) - Excerpt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
- [Regions history gets richer with Morehead family donation to El Paso County Historical Society](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/04/19/el-paso-history-morehead-family-estate-donation-historical-society/) - The collection includes family letters, a history of the Morehead family by Charles Morehead and other materials important to El Paso history.
- [Password LX, 2016](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/12/password-lx-2016/) - Password Volume LX, Numbers 1-4 from 2016 Volume LX, No. 1, Spring 2016 Spence v. Fletcher: The Case That Killed Legalized Prostitution in Texas by Ken Jackson The Story of J. Manuel Escajeda and the Link between Duke University, World War I, El Paso, and the University of Virginia by the Honorable Alberto F. Trevino,
- [Here's how Texas women received right to vote and what role El Paso had](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/08/01/heres-how-texas-women-received-right-to-vote-and-what-role-el-paso-had/) - Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States of America says that the “…Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof: but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations…” Amendment X strengthens state control
- [The History of the El Paso League of Women Voters: 1940-1967](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/03/01/women-as-agents-of-change-1940-1980the-rebrith-of-the-el-paso-leauge-of-women-voters/) - The El Paso League of Women Voters was organized in 1919, previously it was the El Paso Equal Franchise League which was organized in 1915, and was the first women’s suffrage organization in El Paso. The League faded away in the 1940s. By this time many of the early members and early active members had
- [Exhibit: Preserving Local History: El Paso County Historical Society 1953-1986.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/09/24/preserving-local-history-el-paso-county-historical-society-the-early-years-1953-1986/) - Preserving Local History: El Paso County Historical Society 1953-1986. Since 1954 the El Paso County Historical Society has been the driving force of the historic scene of El Paso. EPCHS strives to foster research into the history of the El Paso area; share that history with the public; publish and encourage historical writing pertaining to
- [El Paso County Historical Society Honors Four El Pasoans with Prestigious Award](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/11/19/el-paso-county-historical-society-honors-four-el-pasoans-with-prestigious-award/) - El Paso—November 17, 2020—Four outstanding individuals have been selected for the El Paso County Historical Society’s 60th Annual Hall of Honor. This year’s honorees are Rick Francis, Maude Craig Sampson Williams, William J. Hooten, and Janice Woods Windle. Rick Francis is the Chairman and CEO of WestStar Bank and well known for his civic and charitable
- [EPCHS announces 2021 Hall of Honor selection](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/10/02/epchs-announces-2021-hall-of-honor-selection-tickets-now-on-sale/) - UPDATE: Ticket sales have ended. The El Paso County Historical Society is pleased to announce the selection of Mr. Colbert Coldwell, Mr. Joseph Ray, Mr. Jack Maxon, and Ms. Mary Haynes, to the 2021 Hall of Honor. This year we will be celebrating the 2021 and 2020 honorees as we were unable to host our
- [El Paso County Historical Society closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/11/23/el-paso-county-historical-society-holiday-hours/) - The El Paso County Historical Society holiday hours set for Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year.
- [Due to forecasted winter weather El Paso County Historical Society will be closed Thursday and Friday](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2022/02/02/texas-winter-story-el-paso-county-historical-society-closed-thursday-friday/) - The El Paso County Historical Society will be closed on Thursday, Feb. 3 and Friday, Feb. 4 due to the forecasted winter weather. We will resume normal business operations on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. Our normal business hours are Monday - Friday from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. If you need any assistance during this
- [HISTORICAL SOCIETY OFFERS LOST RESTAURANTS BOOK](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/03/06/historical-society-offers-lost-restaurants-book-march-6-2021/) - Jaxon’s, Ashley’s Gardens, and Bill Parks BBQ are all lost, but not forgotten, restaurants of El Paso. Learn the history of these restaurants, complete with pictures and menus, in the El Paso County Historical Society’s new book, “Lost Restaurants of El Paso.” From El Paso’s earliest days, the mix of travelers who have moved through
- [UPDATE: Ticket sales have ended for for 2020/2021 El Paso County Historical Society Hall of Honor](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/11/08/el-paso-county-historical-society-2021-hall-of-honor-tickets-on-sale/) - UPDATE: Ticket sales have ended. There's still time to reserve your seat for this year's El Paso County Historical Society Hall of Honor! This year’s banquet will be held at the historic Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park, 106 W. Mills Ave. on Sunday, November 14, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. The event will include a plated lunch,
- [17th Annual Sunset Heights Tour of Homes in El Paso set for Oct. 2. Here's what to know](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/09/23/sunset-heights-tour-of-homes-el-paso-county-historical-society/) - The 17th Annual Sunset Heights Tour of Homes is back! The tour is set for Saturday, Oct. 2, from 12 p.m.- 4 p.m. Funds raised by the event go to the Sunset Heights Neighborhood Improvement Association used to assist neighborhood residents with their properties, provide neighborhood activities, and maintain the historical integrity of the neighborhood.
- [El Paso County Historical Society begins a series of discussions with dinner and talk on July 23, tickets are limited](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/07/14/restaurant-el-layali-dinner-talk-el-paso-county-historical-society/) - UPDATE: Ticket sales are now closed. El Paso is a true melting pot. Over 400 years, many different people from different ethnicities have called The Pass of the North their home. On Friday, July 23, the El Paso County Historical Society will begin a series of online discussions about the different people who have
- ['Lost Restaurants of El Paso' book sale event at 101-year-old former Texaco Service Station](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/08/04/lost-restaurants-of-el-paso-book-sale-event-at-101-year-old-former-texaco-service-station/) - The El Paso County Historical Society got mouths watering and memories flooding back with the release earlier this year of the Lost Restaurants of El Paso, and now you can get your hands on a copy and get up close and personal to one of the Sun City’s most iconic buildings. The historic 101-year-old former Texaco Service
- [El Paso County Historical Society currently accepting 2021 Hall of Honor nominations](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/08/04/el-paso-county-historical-society-currently-accepting-2021-hall-of-honor-nominations/) - The El Paso County Historical Society is currently accepting nominations for inductees to the 2021 Hall of Honor. Nominees should be considered outstanding individuals of character, vision, courage, and creative spirit. They must have lived in El Paso County and have consistently done the unusual which deserves to be remembered or have made El Paso County better for having lived
- [Virtual history events taking place in the month of August](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/08/01/texas-things-to-do-history-virtual-events-august/) - Here's a look at the virtual history events happening in the month of August. Decatur House/White House Historical Association When: Tuesday, August 10 at 5 p.m. ET Cost: Free to attend; Facebook live stream More information: White House History Live: Inside Camp David History Happy Hour events Thursday, August 12 at 5:30 p.m. ET Free
- [Lower Valley Woman's Club Collection](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/06/30/lower-valley-woman-club-collection/) - The Lower Valley Woman's Club was founded in April 1923. The Ysleta Woman's Community Club was founded at the home of Essie Paden in San Jose, near Ysleta. The Ysleta Woman's Club wanted a clubhouse and a community center. Jennie Downs was the first president. The community center was dedicated in 1925. The club was
- [August Quarterly Meeting](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/10/august-quarterly-meeting/) - Gary Williams, Senior Program Officer of the El Paso Community Foundation, spoke about the many historical projects he has worked on, such as the restoration of the rare "Lady Justice" zinc statue which was once on the red brick Victorian El Paso County Courthouse, which was demolished in 1917. Gary brought back the history of
- [2020 Hall of Honor Update](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/07/28/2020-hall-of-honor-update/) - Fellow El Pasoans, As you know, COVID-19 has forced us to reevaluate much of this year's programming and events. We are taking precautions to protect you and our volunteers. As such, we have decided to postpone the 2020 Hall of Honor banquet. Nevertheless, we will still select four honorees and celebrate them in person at
- [2020 Hall of Honor Nominations](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/05/13/hohnominationform/) - The El Paso County Historical Society is currently accepting nominations for inductees to the 2020 Hall of Honor. A maximum of two living and two deceased persons will be remembered and honored at the Society’s annual banquet. Nominees should be considered outstanding men or women of character, vision, courage, and creative spirit. These individuals must
- [ICYMI: Looking back during Women's History Month in El Paso, Texas](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/03/26/el-paso-texas-womens-history-month-county-historical-society/) - Did you miss any of the Women's History Month posts? Here's a look at what you may have missed and other posts celebrating women's accomplishments in El Paso. Mabel Welch: Pioneer Woman Architect In 1929, Mabel Clair Welch and her son Elvin vacationed in California, and during the trip, she studied Spanish-style architecture to gather
- [COVID-19 update: El Paso County Historical Society open by appointment only](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/03/24/covid-19-update-epchs-closed-until-further-notice/) - UPDATE March 24, 2021: The El Paso County Historical Society is open by appointment only. COVID-19 safety measures will be in place and we ask that anyone visiting wear a mask and maintain social distancing. Click here for more safety tips from the CDC. Please email epchs@elpasohistory.com or call (915) 533-3603. if you have any questions or
- [Pioneering Women Artists in El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/09/15/women-artists-in-el-paso-draft/) - See photos of the pioneering women artists in the El Paso area. -Joseph Longo
- [Judy Zarate: She was always there.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/03/16/judy-zarateshe-was-always-there/) - Judy Zarate, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, served in local and national roles in the Women's Political Caucus, becoming a leader of the caucus in the 1980s. This mother of three and member of Leadership Texas was twice local chair of EPWPC and served on the board for nine years. In 1986, Zarate served
- [Anne Holder Fought for Women Rights.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/03/14/ann-holder-fought-for-women-rights/) - Anne Holder, a UTEP-trained sociologist, educator, and early activist in the El Paso Woman Political Caucus, was named Feminist of the Year in 1976 at their Women’s Equality Day (WED) fundraising banquet. Her obituary in the El Paso Times in February of 2017 described her “as a woman of passion and burning rhetoric.”A key player
- [History of Socorro Schools](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/01/29/history-of-socorro-schools-draft/) - In 1878, a public school was opened in Socorro and Ysleta, but these schools were not continuous. By 1886, according to the county school census, there were 15 boys and 16 girls students. By 1906, Frances Culligan was teaching school in a two-room adobe building on Socorro Road, boys and girls were educated separately. The
- [Happy Birthday Jane Burges Perrenot](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/07/19/jane-burges-perrenot/) - From “Jane Burges Perrenot July 19th 1900-June 18th,” 1986, by Greg Pine During her long life as an El Pasoan, Mrs. Perrenot dedicated much of her time and treasure to the betterment of her beloved El Paso. She was a charter member of the Junior Service League, now the Junior League, and served as president
- [Bonnie Lesley and The  Founding of the El Paso Women's Political Caucus.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/03/03/bonnie-lesley-and-the-founding-of-the-el-paso-womens-political-caucus/) - In August 1970, Bessie Simpson, the Women’s Page editor at the El Paso Herald-Post, authored an article subtitled “To Lib or Not to Lib” in which she interviewed El Paso women, young and old. Of the twelve El Paso women quoted, the majority endorsed very traditional female roles. According to her findings, most of these
- [When Nazi Wives Came to El Paso by Jonna Perrillo](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/03/10/17612/) - When Nazi Wives Came to El Paso by Jonna Perrillo Boarding a Pullman train car in 1947 that would take her and her children from New York City to El Paso, Texas, Ursula Haukohl noticed that her last name was misspelled on her ticket. Yet when she mentioned this to one of the railway workers
- [Lucinda de Leftwich Templin](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/03/22/lucinda-de-leftwich-templin/) - From “Radford School: The First 75 Years of Excellence” by Laura Cramer, The Password On January 15, 1910, a group of El Paso businessmen met at the Chamber of Commerce. Their purpose in the meeting: to discuss the possibility of establishing a private boarding school for girls. Other meetings followed in rapid succession. And by
- [Mabel Welch:Pioneer Woman Architect](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/03/24/mabel-welch/) - Mabel Welch: Pioneer Woman Architect Mabel Clair Welch was born on November 8, 1890, on her grandfather’s plantation near Longtown, Panola County, Mississippi. In 1899, Mabel’s father, Martin Luther Vanderburg, Junior, decided to move his family to Northeast Texas With their neighbors, the Blackburns and the McBeths, the Vanderburgs departed Mississippi for Texas in covered
- [El Paso Strong Archival Initiative](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/08/03/el-paso-strong-archival-initiative/) - The El Paso County Historical Society remembers and grieves for the victims of the horrific attack that took place in El Paso on August 3, 2019. El Paso was targeted that day, but we emerged stronger than ever before. We continue to gather images, oral histories, social media posts, artwork, and other physical and digital
- [Lydia Stark: "I have kept my promise"](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/03/24/lydia-stark-i-have-kept-my-promise/) - In 1962 Lydia Malernee Stark, a retired speech teacher, ran as a Republican for County Superintendent of Schools against John T. Bean. Stark ran on one platform: to abolish the office she was running for. She ran as a Republican in a strongly Democratic county. No Republican had been elected countywide since Alfred Sharpe of
- [Arlene Quenon: El Paso's First Woman Elected to City Council](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/03/31/arlene-quenon-el-paso-frist-woman-elected-to-city-council-draft/) - Arlene Stark Quenon was born on October 19, 1934, in Antigo, Wisconsin to a farmer and lumberjack, Jim and his wife, Molly. Quenon’s parents were involved in politics working on political campaigns and her mother was a school board member. Quenon attended two years at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, until she left
- [Karma Deane and Her Dance Studio](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/10/03/karma-deane-and-her-dance-studio/) - Karma Deane was a prominent and well-known dancer and instructor in El Paso and throughout the country until her death here in 1959. Deane was born in Waco, Deane came to El Paso at a young age with her mother, Maud in the 1930s. Maud worked with W.W. Westrup in his photography studio and later
- [Marian Bainbridge Collins](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/03/26/marian-bainbridge-collins-draft/) - Image of Marian Collins courtesy of The El Paso Herald-Post Historical Files M.S. 348 at UTEP Special Collections Marian Bainbridge Collins was born in Idaho but came to El Paso at a young age. Marian graduated from Coldwell Elementary and Austin High School, and later UTEP. Marian was married to an attorney named, William Coldwell Collins. Mr
- [Snow falls in El Paso. Here's a look at the Burges House during Valentine's Day](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/02/14/el-paso-weather-forecast-snow-storm-photos-burges-house/) - A winter storm passed through the El Paso area on Valentine's Day. Get the latest weather updates here and find tips on how to stay safe here. Here's a look at what the Burges House looked like following the snowfall.
- [Black History Month:African American Suffragists in El Paso.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2021/02/08/african-american-suffragists-in-el-paso/) - African American Suffragists in El Paso By Janine Young The women’s suffrage campaign in the United States was a remarkable political and social movement that spanned seven decades of American history. A little known aspect of this history is the story of African American suffragists in El Paso. The city had a small yet intensely
- [History of Fabens schools](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/15/history-of-fabens-school-history/) - Photo Courtesy of the Border Heritage Center at the Main Library. It is from the 1924 El Paso County School Annual. The first public school opened in 1905, in a one-room building on the Henry Elm Farm. The first public school teacher was John Phelan who taught 12 students. In 1905 the building burned down, but
- [Women as Agents of Social Change: El Paso's Social Housekeepers, 1886-1930](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/07/19/women-as-agents-of-social-change/) - Women as Agents of Social Change: El Paso's Social Housekeepers, 1886-1930 Red Cross women organizing for a magazine drive during World War I. (Image located in El Paso County Historical Society archives) 2020 EPCHS Women's History Exhibit During the late 19th century and early 20th century, El Paso women found their public and
- [A Thanksgiving Menu](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/11/21/a-thanksgiving-menu/) - From a Loose-leaf notebook with handwritten notes on nutrition, foods, and recipes that belonged to Helen O'Shea Keleher.1918-1920 Oyster Soup Celery Roast turkey Mashed potatoes Crisp chicken Salted almond Cranberry jelly Onions with cream Chicken Pie Fruit Pudding Cream Sauce Mince and Apple pie Ice Cream Fruit, Nuts, Resins, Bon Bon, Fancy Cake Café Noir
- [Honoring Leon Claire Metz 1930-2020](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/11/17/honoring-leon-claire-metz-1930-2020/) - The El Paso County Historical Society would like to express our condolences to the family, friends, and many fans of Leon Claire Metz who passed away Sunday, November 15, 2020. Leon was a past-president of the Society and well-loved and respected, not only by the Society but in the community that he chose to make
- [Louise Dietrich : A Pioneer Nurse, El Paso Suffragist, Women’s Rights Leader](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/11/12/louise-dietrich-a-pioneer-nurse-el-paso-suffragist-womens-rights-leader/) - Louise Dietrich (1878-1962) was a pioneer in the nursing profession in Texas and a leader of the women’s suffrage movement in El Paso. She was a charter member of the El Paso Equal Franchise League (EPEFL) and served in several key leadership roles. Dietrich was a professional nurse, who was the founder of the Texas
- [Weddings at the Burges House.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/10/29/weddings-at-the-burges-house-draft/) - Brides of the Burges House (excerpt from the Brides of the Burges House by former EPCHS President, Carolyn Beck.) The Burges House, home of four generations of the Burges family, has been the setting for more than twenty weddings and receptions for family and friends during the years of 1923 through 1977. The first bride
- [Notable Women in El Paso History  from the 1920s-1970s : Educators and Activists.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/02/24/notable-women-in-el-paso-history-from-the-1920s-1970s-sportswomenmuses-and-clergywomen/) - A Celebration of Women History Month by Joseph Longo
- [Notable Women in El Paso History 1920s-1970s.: Entrepreneurs Businesswomen, and Public Service.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/02/25/notable-women-in-el-paso-history-1920s-1970s-entrepreneurs-and-buisnesswomen/) - A Celebration of Women History Month by Joseph Longo
- [Notable Women in El Paso History  from the 1920s-1970s : Athletes, Artists, and Writers.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/02/24/notable-women-in-el-paso-history-from-the-1920s-1970s-trailblazersbarnstormers-and-pioneers/) - Celebration of Women's History Month. by Joseph Longo
- [Pioneering Women Athletes in El Paso: Tennis](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/07/28/pioneering-woman-athletes-in-el-paso-part-one/) - In 1921, the El Paso Tennis and Swimming Club was founded. The organization only allowed men at first, but in 1923 women were allowed to join. Some of the early women members included Mary and Virginia Seamon, Norma Heffler, Dorothy Crawford, Elise Strickland, Bena Perez, Elizabeth Coldwell, Mrs. C.A. Mitchell, Ruth Mott Rawling, Margie McBloom,
- [Past Hall of Honor Ceremonies](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/11/01/past-hall-of-honor-ceremonies/)
- [New Publication from EPCHS:  "My Book: Richard Fenner Burges' Personal Diary, 1891-1898"](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/09/10/new-publication-from-epchs-my-book-richard-fenner-burges-personal-diary-1891-1898/) - We are happy to announce the release of "My Book: Richard Fenner Burges' Personal Diary, 1891-1898," an El Paso County Historical Society publication. In the diary, written during his late teens and early twenties, Burges recounts his life in the far west Texas town of El Paso shortly after his arrival from Seguin. As El
- [Davenport Family Donates Iconic Gas Station to El Paso County Historical Society](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/09/11/davenport-family-donates-iconic-gas-station-to-el-paso-county-historical-society/) - EL PASO – August 18, 2020— Mrs. Rod Davenport and the Davenport family have donated the 101-year-old, former Texaco Service Station located at 2871 Grant Avenue to the El Paso County Historical Society (EPCHS). The donation earlier this year fulfilled Mr. Davenport’s wish to preserve the station as a gift to the community that as
- [From the Archives: Scrapbooks](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/08/30/from-the-archives-scrapbooks/) - Since the founding of the El Paso County Historical Society, our collections have expanded giving the Society a wide variety of subjects for study. The Archives of the El Paso County Historical is composed of documents, photographs, three-dimensional items, maps, scrapbooks, Oral histories, Books, and annuals. A sampling of these collections are detailed below.
- [From the Archives: Anita Lee Blair](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/09/08/anita-blair-collection-safety-flims/) - Anita Lee Blair(1916-2011) was the woman to represent El Paso in the Texas State Legislature from 1953-1955. She also was the first blind woman to hold any elected office in The United States. Blair was also a national freelance safety lecturer, who traveled all around the county with a seeing-eye dog, a German Shepherd named
- [The El Paso Woman's Club and the Woman's Suffrage Movement By Joseph Longo](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/08/29/the-el-paso-womans-and-womans-suffrage-by-joseph-longo/) - The El Paso Woman's Club and Woman's Suffrage Movement By Joseph Longo The El Paso Woman’s Club was formed in 1894 on San Francisco street at the home of the first president, Mary Hamilton Mills. The organization would later become the Women’s Club of El Paso. Starting as an intellectual club, in the 1890s it
- [Meeting of Women at Fort Bliss  Launched the El Paso Women’s Suffrage Movement  By Janine Young](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/08/24/meeting-of-women-at-fort-bliss-launched-the-el-paso-womens-suffrage-movement-by-janine-young/) - Women in El Paso had been speaking about women’s enfranchisement for years before the creation of the El Paso Equal Franchise League (EPEFL) in early 1915. The moment was right for the formation of an organized suffrage effort in El Paso. The city’s population had reached a critical mass, there was a network of reform-minded
- [Alice Merchant: An El Paso Suffragist by Joseph Longo](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/08/23/16614/) - Another founding mother of the El Paso Equal Franchise League was Dr. Alice Merchant, who was the first woman doctor in El Paso. She came to El Paso in 1895. Alice Blackadder was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. She graduated from New York Medical College. Merchant practiced in Ysleta and Dallas before coming to El
- [Women in El  Paso History Part 2](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/02/10/el-paso-women-history/)
- [Grace Logan: An El Paso Suffragist. by Joseph Longo](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/08/19/grace/) - Grace Virginia Logan was the first corresponding secretary of the El Paso's first suffrage league, the El Paso Equal Franchise League. Logan was a leader in the League’s War relief work during WWI and led a campaign to provide magazines and other published materials to soldiers. She represented the El Paso Equal Franchise League at
- [Traces of Stardom in El Paso: Bessie Love.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/08/17/traces-of-stardom-in-el-paso-bessie-love/) - Bessie Love(1898-1986)was a famous and successful actress during the silent and early sound film era. She was nominated for her performance in "Broadway Melody" in 1929 for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Love's career in film, radio, and television lasted for eight decades. Love also had an El Paso Connection. Bessie Love was born
- [The El Paso Equal Franchise League, 1915-1920.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/08/09/the-el-paso-equal-franchise-league-1915-1920-draft/) - The El Paso Equal Franchise League, 1915-1920 By Joseph Longo El Paso’s first women’s suffrage group, the Equal Franchise League, was organized at the Hotel Orndorff on January 12, 1915.[1] One of the early members, Helen Freudenthal explained that she became interested in the cause after attending a suffrage meeting in New York and that
- [Belle Critchett: An El Paso Suffragist](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/08/14/belle-critchett-an-el-paso-suffragist/) - Belle Critchett: An El Paso Suffragist by Abbie Weiser During the early twentieth century, Belle Christie Ferguson Critchett (March 9, 1867 – January 6, 1956) was one of El Paso’s most important suffrage leaders. In addition to her work advocating for the women’s suffrage, Critchett supported many other progressive era-issues of
- [Peter E. Kern, Kern Place, and the Astrological Letter](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/03/19/astrological-signsletters-from-p-e-kern-to-mrs-john-mitchell/) - Peter E. Kern, Kern Place, and the Astrological Letter March 19, 2020 Kern Place, nestled between the Franklin Mountains and the University of Texas at El Paso, is one of El Paso's most iconic neighborhoods. Its unique and lush character is hardly surprising when one understands its founder, Peter E. Kern. Learn more about Kern
- [The El Paso Humane Society: Organized Dec 29, 1947](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/02/the-el-paso-humane-society-organized-on-dec-291947/) - The El Paso Humane Society was first organized in 1903 in the office of Col. Bean in the Mills Building and they got the city council to pass a law against animal cruelty the next year. The Society, however, wandered astray and was reorganized in 1906 by a group of women including Mrs. W.S. Tilton.
- [Mildred Baker: An El Paso Suffragist](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/08/05/mildred-baker-a-el-paso-suffragist/) - Mildred Baker: An El Paso Suffragist
- [Annie Jane Berry: An El Paso Suffragist.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/08/03/el-pasos-annie-rooney/) - Annie Jane Berry died in El Paso in 1925 at her home at 411 S. Kansas St. She ran a saloon in the 1890s in the tenderloin district. She was a cook at the city jail. Annie was active and was considered a leader in the El Paso African-American community. She was a contact person
- [Password XLVII, 2002](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/06/password-xlvii-2002/) - Password Volume XLVII, Numbers 1-4 from 2002 Volume XLVII, No. 1, Spring 2002 Hall of Honor Ray T. Chapman by Frank McKnight Mother Praxedes Carty: A Remarkable Life by Patricia Jean Manion, SL, Ph.D. Daniel Roy Ponder 1907-1965 by Richard H. Feuille Previous Hall of Honor Recipients 1961-2001 The Casasola Legacy in El Paso by Samuel
- [El Paso's African American Women Suffragists](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/06/07/el-pasos-african-american-women-suffeagettes/) - On Dec 12, 1918, the Colored Women's Progressive Club of El Paso was organized, and it was an auxiliary to the El Paso Equal Franchise League. They campaigned for women's right to vote and fought for the improvement of their living conditions. The first president was Maud Edith Sampson. Sampson tried registering the club as
- [Hague Collection: The Century Cookbook](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/07/13/hague-collection-the-century-cookbook/) - Hague Collection: The Century Cookbook One of the early recipe books that the El Paso County Historical Society has in its archive is the Century Cookbook by Mary Ronald. It was first published in 1895 in England. This book is considered by scholars to be culturally significant to American Culinary history. The cookbook was republished
- [Animals at Washington Park Zoo.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/07/16/animals-at-washington-park-zoo/) - 75 Animals added To El Paso Zoo, El Paso Herald-Post, Jan 7, 1929 page 3 In 1928 the El Paso Zoo at Washington Park acquired 75 new birds and animals through births and sale. One of the animals was a lioness named, Frances valued at $450, she was acquired from a circus, trading two mountain
- [Welcome Back!: A Few Images of El Paso Schools Over the Years](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/08/25/welcome-back-a-few-images-of-el-paso-schools-over-the-years/) - El Paso's school history is rich and varied, dating back to a time before El Paso was a booming town. Prior to incorporation of the city, and even after, schoolhouses were few and far between, much of the instruction occurring in homes or makeshift buildings. Even after the arrival of the railroads in 1881 necessitated the creation of permanent schools with full-time instructors, El Paso spent years founding a school district. Soon, however, the El Paso Independent School District was established and schools flourished throughout the city and its outskirts. Throughout the years, students have been educated in iconic buildings and facilities--from Douglass to Aoy to El Paso and Ysleta High Schools, and by motivational and inspiring teachers. Our educational system is the consequent of years of hard work, progress, development, and post Civil-War and even Mexican and Spanish history. This week, thousands of El Pasoans headed back to school to continue the region's school history and embark on a months long journey of classroom instruction and growth. Take a look at some of the photos we have at the Burges House of schools in this area; many of the facilities are still used today.
- [1998 Union Plaza Development Report](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/10/18/1998-union-plaza-development-report/) - Union Plaza Downtown El Paso Development Archaeological Project: Overview, Inventory and Recommendations, a report for the Sun Metro Transit Authority, City of El Paso, Texas. Dated December 9, 1998. Read the 1998 Report
- [2016 Hall of Honor Banquet](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/11/10/2016-hall-of-honor-banquet/) - Here is a selection of photos from our 56th Annual Hall of Honor Banquet which honored Luis Jimenez, Michael Hudson, Holly Thurston Cox and Paco Jordan.
- [El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame 1955-2018](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/01/08/12262/) - Take a tour of this gallery of images from our El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame Collection, 1955-2018. Joseph Longo, EPCHS Curator (Pleace click on images for a closer look)
- [The  Art Work of Kate Krause Ball (1891-1973)](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/12/16/12193/) - Kate Krause Ball was a pioneering and prominent artist who was inspired by the southwest and also ancient biblical and Asian calligraphy. Please enjoy this gallery containing images of her artwork.
- [Identified: Herbert William Igoe](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/08/identified/) - We have identified this photo of Herbert Igoe through his granddaughter Gloria. This is the first time Gloria has seen a photo of her granddad. From the Risinger Photo Collection: Herbert William Igoe. Born September 11 in El Paso, Texas. Died September 26, 2002 in El Paso, Texas. He father was Joseph Micheal Igoe born
- [Old Post Cards of Mexico and United States](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/13/old-post-cards-of-mexico-and-united-state/) - These postcards came from my late grandmother. She collected them on travels she took as a young woman. EPCHS Curator, Joseph Longo
- [Photos: Juarez 1940](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/09/juarez-1940/) - As we were going through the archives, we found a collection of photos from Juarez in 1940. Some of the areas need no introduction. But if you can identify a structure, street, or person in the pics, please let us know by emailing info@elpasohistory.com
- [Past Presidents of the El Paso County Historical Society](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/31/past-presidents-of-the-el-paso-historical-society/)
- [Photos: Upstairs Theater Collection.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/09/16/the-upstairs-downtown-theater-draft/) - Photos: Upstairs Theater Downtown Collection.
- [Purchase copies of photos from our archives](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/04/08/purchase-photos-from-our-archives/) - Click here to view photos available for purchase. For more information or to request a photo or photo gallery call 915-533-3603 or contact us at info@elpasohistory.com.
- [Risinger Photo Studio photos](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/09/25/risinger-photo-studio-photos/) - This is a collection of photos donated to the Historical Society by the granddaughter of former Police Chief and photo studio owner Risinger. If you can identify any of the people in these photos please contact us at info@elpasohistory.com or by calling 915-533-3603.
- [The Development of Cosmetology in El Paso:  1892-1970s.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/10/27/the-development-of-cosmetology-in-el-paso-draft/) - The Development of Cosmetology in El Paso: 1892-1970s. Read more about the history of Cosmetology in the El Paso area. Click through the images. -Joseph Longo
- [Photos: El Paso Parks](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/04/12/photos-el-paso-parks/) - Some photos of early El Paso parks from our archives.
- [Donation: 'Box of junk' at Corpus Christi yard sale turns up 1903 'Key to City' of El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/03/29/donation-box-of-junk-at-corpus-christi-yard-sale-turns-up-1903-key-to-city-of-el-paso/) - The El Paso County Historical Society received a donation from Mr. Kelling of Corpus Christi, Texas. Mr. Kelling purchased "a box of junk in Corpus Christi" and found stamped brass "key to the city" inscribed with "Twenty seventh convention TCRA key to the city El Paso 1903." The TCRA was the Texas Cattle Raisers Association
- [We are Digitally Open!](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/05/19/we-are-digitally-open/) - Dear El Paso County Historical Society Members and Supporters: We are pleased to announce that we are digitally open! We welcome your research requests and questions via email and through Facebook.We will also be checking telephone messages regularly. Please be patient as we work in different ways to fulfill your requests. In addition, we remain active
- [Remembering COVID-19 in El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/04/28/remembering-covid-19-in-el-paso/) - Greetings: We hope you and your loved ones are doing well. We are gathering El Pasoans’ accounts of their COVID-19 pandemic experiences and we need your help. We are asking you to share your stories with us so that this information can be preserved for future generations. Your stories can be hand-written or typed and
- [El Paso Strong Archival Initiative: Learn more here](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/08/17/el-paso-strong-archival-initiative-learn-more-here/) - Hello friends and supporters, In the wake of the senseless tragedy that occurred in our community on August 3, 2019, the El Paso County Historical Society is starting the El Paso Strong Archival Initiative in order to document this event for posterity. Please read more below. You may contact us at 915-533-3603 if you have
- [Annual Holiday Open House set for Dec 5, 2019](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/11/18/annual-holiday-open-house/) - You are invited to carry on the Burges family tradition by joining us for our annual Holiday Open House. Snacks and beverages will be provided, including the famous Burges eggnog. This event is free and open to the public. And, as the Burges family used to say, "Once invited, always invited." El Paso County Historical
- [Jennie Calderella Richards:  A Pioneer in Business](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/08/01/jennie-calderella-richards-el-pasos-women-pioneer-in-business/) - Jennie Calderella was born in El Paso in 1909. She was the daughter of Jack Calderella and Angela Barbaria. In 1898, Jack founded a meat market, and it eventually became a grocery store. Jack's son, Ciro, took it over and ran it as a restaurant equipment store. Jack came to El Paso from Sicily and
- [El Paso History Day 2020](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/03/04/el-paso-history-day-2020/) - On February 22nd, 313 students from the El Paso region took part in El Paso History Day at UTEP. Over 40 of those students were selected as regional finalists and will go on to represent their schools at Texas History Day in Austin at the end of April. Winners at the state level will move
- [El Paso County Historical Society to Celebrate Women’s History Month](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/02/28/el-paso-county-historical-society-to-celebrate-womens-history-month/) - The El Paso County Historical Society (EPCHS) will host several events throughout March to celebrate Women’s History Month. Through talks and an exhibit, EPCHS intends to highlight the lives of prominent local women who contributed to this region’s rich and diverse history. On March 7, 2020 at 12 p.m., EPCHS welcomes the public to the grand opening of “Women
- [Lost Restaurants of El Paso Presentation: The Central Cafe & Jaxon's](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2020/01/20/lost-restaurants-of-el-paso-presentation-the-central-cafe-jaxons/) - The El Paso County Historical Society is pleased to host a presentation by Joe Lewels on the histories of the Central Café in Juarez and Jaxon’s Restaurant in El Paso on Saturday, January 25 at 10:00 AM at the Burges House (603 W. Yandell). The event is free and open to the public and light refreshments
- [EPCHS Holiday Hours](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/12/23/epchs-holiday-hours/) - Please note that the Burges House will be closed from Tuesday, December 24th through December 27th and again on December 31st and January 1st. Happy Holidays!
- [16th Annual Sunset Heights Tour of Homes - October 5, 2019](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/09/16/16th-annual-sunset-heights-tour-of-homes-october-5-2019/) - The 16th annual Sunset Heights Tour of Homes will be held from 12-4 on Saturday, October 5, 2019. Ticket prices are $5 for children 10 and under and $10 for adults. Tickets can be purchased the Hal Marcus Gallery on 1308 N. Oregon (533-9090).
- [Hall of Honor Banquet - 11/15/2019](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/11/05/save-the-date-2019-hall-of-honor-banquet/) - For 59 years, EPCHS has honored El Pasoans of outstanding character whose achievements have brought integrity and recognition to the El Paso community. Inductees are also exemplary role models for future generations. Past honorees include Richard and William Burges, Henry Trost, Tom Lea, Jr., Olga Kohlberg, Maud Sullivan, and Dr. Diana Natalicio. This year’s
- [Community Meeting: I-10 Trench Project](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/11/04/community-meeting-i-10-trench-project/) - The Sunset Heights Neighborhood Improvement Association and and the El Paso County Historical Society are organizing a community meeting from 5:30-7:00 at Trinity-First United Methodist Church at 801 N. Mesa to discuss proposed efforts to widen I-10 through downtown. We hope to see you there and to get your support as we enter a new
- [November Book Talk: “Guadalupe Mountains National Park” by Dr. Jeff Shepherd - 11/2](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/10/28/14219/) - The El Paso County Historical Society is pleased to present a presentation by Dr. Jeff Shepherd on the Guadalupe Mountains National Park on Saturday, November 2nd at 10:00 am. The event is free and open to the public.
- [For Email Inquiries](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/10/24/for-email-inquiries/) - October 24, 2019 Our traditional email system is currently down. If you email the El Paso County Historical Society at info@elpasohistory.com or epchs@elpasohistory.com, we may not receive your message. Until further notice, please contact us at elpasocountyhistory@gmail.com for email inquiries. You may also call us at (915) 533-3603 or visit us from 10am to 2pm
- [Preservation Symposium: Baron Rudolph von Ripper Mural - 10/2 at 10:00 am](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/10/11/preservation-symposium-baron-rudolph-von-ripper-mural-10-2-at-1000-am/) - Preservation Symposium: Baron Rudolph von Ripper Mural – John Hamilton, former historian of Fort Bliss, unveils the mystery of a mural painted by an Austrian aristocrat, who was imprisoned by the Nazis for his stance against Fascism. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Von Ripper became an American citizen and was stationed briefly at Fort
- [A look at the Sun Carnival Queens of El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/11/14/sun-carnival-queens-of-el-paso/) - Here are some photos of past sun queens, princess, and duchesses. The Southwestern El Paso Sun Carnival was founded in 1935. See more photos. Dr. C.M. Henricks came up with the name and won the contest that was held to decide what to name this event. The first game was on Jan 1, 1935, it was
- [Oral History Workshop This Sunday!](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/07/23/oral-history-workshop-this-sunday/)
- [Nell  Gardner: Founded the first Pilot Club West of the Mississippi](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/08/10/nell-gardner-founded-the-first-pilot-club-west-of-the-mississippi/) - In 1911, Nell Stanley Corbett came to El Paso with first husband and her daughter, Isabella Zimmerman. Nell was soon widowed and had a daughter to support. She worked as a secretary for the President of the El Paso National bank. She worked for the El Paso Flourdry and Machine Company and was the manager
- [A Study in Historic Beauty](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/09/10/a-study-in-historic-beauty/) - (EPCHS note: This semester, EPCHS launched an internship program meant to give students an opportunity to work in an archive and obtain professional experience that will prepare them for the marketplace. This is the first blog post in a series authored by one of our interns from the history department at UTEP about her experiences here.)
- [Birthday Celebration: 65 years of preserving history at the El Paso County Historical Society](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2019/04/13/anniversary-birthday-celebration-el-paso-county-historical-society/) - The El Paso County Historical Society had a birthday celebration on April 13, 2019. The festivities included dance performances, face painting, food trucks, history talks, two egg hunts and the Amigo Man! Here's a look at all the fun. [responsive-slider id=13924]
- [Margaret Rolston Macdonald: Founder of Roslton Hospital.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/07/08/margaret-rolston-macdonald-founder-of-roslton-hospital/) - In 1911, Margaret Rolston Macdonald a nurse founded Rolston hospital which was first located on 216 Wyoming Street. In 1916 she built a new hospital where the central police station now stands at North Raynor street. After her death in 1922, The Rolston Hospital was sold to the masons who reopened it as the Masonic hospital.
- [Early El Paso Policewomen](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/11/01/early-women-el-paso-women-policewomen-draft/) - In 1913 , Mrs. C.A. Hooper, Mrs. L.P. Jones, and Juliet Barlow were the earliest women to serve as city police officers in El Paso. Jones was superintendent of the local charity association, Barlow was a nurse for El Paso Baby District, and Jones was a visiting nurse with the local tubercular association. Their primary duties
- [Sylvia DeAngelis : first woman Police Sargent in El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/07/01/sylvia-deangelis-first-woman-police-sargent-in-el-paso/) - April 29.1994 El Paso Times. Sylvia DeAngelis was the first woman police sergeant in El Paso in 1987 and later the first woman El Paso Police LT in 1994.
- [Hall of Honor Nomination Form 2018](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/06/08/hall-of-honor-nomination-form-2018/) - We are currently asking for nominations for honorees for the 2018 Hall of Honor. As you all know, the El Paso County Historical Society honors several El Pasoans each year at our annual Hall of Honor banquet. This event showcases the achievements of individuals who have made tremendous, positive contributions to our community. This year,
- [Mabel and the Merrymakers.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/06/05/mabel-and-the-merrymakers/) - Mabel Moody was born in Big Spring, Texas; she was the daughter of William Edward Moody and Clara Cochran. Moody married Marion Shirvalle in 1925 in El Paso. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, she was living on Olive street in E Paso. Marion ran the Retail Dairy Place and she her last residence was
- [Shopping in El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/05/25/shopping-centers-and-malls-in-el-paso-draft/) - -Joseph Longo
- [Pioneer residents of Ysleta.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/28/pioneer-residents-of-ysleta/) - Jacinto Telles purchased a large amount of land in 1825 from the boundary commission when colonial rule over Mexico was declining. The Telles; including Ramon, Richardo, Juan Cruz, Rafael Telles were among the early Spanish settlers along with Pedro Gonzales, who served as Alcalde(mayor) of Ysleta. His son, Jose Maria Gonzales wielded a lot of influence in Ysleta because
- [Curator Corner: Bits of History](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/04/01/curator-corner-bits-of-history-draft/) - El Paso County Commissioner Louis J. Ivey Make Surprising Discovery, 1935 In 1935, County Commissioner and pioneer lover valley cotton farmer discovered was named by "The Valley of The Pyramids", 12 miles north of Fabens. It was described as " a canyon filled with myriad colored clays shales and volcanic ash". The El Paso Herald-Post wrote that
- [Ysleta Woman's Club](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/07/09/ysleta-womans-club/) - Photo Credit: Ysleta Woman's Club Collection, UTEP Special Collections The Ysleta Woman's Club was organized in March 1921 at "Sunnyfields" on Alameda, the home of Mrs. J. Stoney Porcher, which later became Cesar Chavez Academy. The club's first president was Mrs. W.B. Abadie. Other officers included Anne Whitney, vice president Elinor Porcher, treasurer Gertrude Cadwallader,
- [The Empire Club and Gillespie's Steak House: 1946-1986](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/02/16/the-empire-club/) - Gillespie Steak House was established in Five Points in 1946 on 2810 Montana. Gillespie opened the Empire Club in 1959 on 2814 Montana. Gillespie mother,Stella was the manager of the steakhouse. Gillespie also operated Wyoming inn on 916 Wyoming Street, Gillespie's Chicken House on 2810 N.Copia. The Gillespie Steakhouse was named Gillespie Grill and
- [Anna B. Newman: First Curator of the El Paso International Art Museum.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/02/11/anna-b-newman-first-curator-of-the-el-paso-international-art-museum-draft/) - Anna Butterfield was born and rasied in Knob Knoster, Missouri in 1881 to Maurice and Luvina Butterfield. Newman first came to El Paso in 1902 and believed have met her husband,Charles Moorehead Newman on the Newman Family Ranch in Northeast El Paso. The Newman was a prominent farming family and land developers in El Paso.
- [Who Founded La Tapatia Inc?](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/02/05/who-founded-la-tapatia-inc/) - La Tapatia started as a tortilla factory in the 1950s, at least as early as 1953. In 1958, it moved from 9075 Alameda to 9030 Alameda which is now a tuxedo rental place. It was sold by the original family to the Gus and Ted Rallis, and Mayor Ray Salazar in 1970. They sold it
- [ Helen Farrington Kister: First Curator of the El Paso County Historical Society.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/02/04/helen-farrington-kister-first-curator-of-the-el-paso-historical-society/) - Photo Credit: El Paso Times Helen Farrington was the first curator of the El Paso Historical Society.Farrington succeeded Dorothy Ormsby as director of the El Paso Main Library in 1945. Ormsby was acting director , who wa appointed in 1943, after the sudden death of Maud Durlin Suilvan. Farrington was born in Chicago and graduated
- [Iconic "castle house" defined by family, atmosphere](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/01/21/iconic-castle-house-defined-by-family-atmosphere/) - The home at 1201 Cincinnati Ave., known as the "stone castle," has stood at the location for more than 100 years, providing a spacious and unique home to many families over the decades. Following is a description of the home by Harriot Howze Jones, writing in the El Paso County Historical Society newsletter, Password: "The
- [Fannie Schutz Spitz: Inventor of the first Machine to Shell Pine Nuts for Commercial Use was born in El Paso.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2018/01/12/fannie-s-spitz-inventor-of-the-first-machine-to-shell-pine-nuts-for-commercial-use-was-born-in-el-paso/) - Fannie S. Spitz was an inventor who patented the first machine to shell pine nuts for commercial used. Fannie Schutz was born in El Paso and was the daughter of Samuel Schutz and Friederike Siebenborn in 1873. Fannie's cousin, Solomon C. Schutz was a prominent merchant and went on to serve as mayor of El Paso. Fannie traveled and
- [Curator Corner: Some  Resources for Genealogy Research](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/12/28/curator-corner-some-genealogy-resources/) - City Directories There are various ways you can access them online and physically: El Paso Main Library 's Border Heritage UTEP Special Collections: Burges House's Jane Burges Perrenot Research Library. How can you access them Online? https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/CIT/ http://digitalcommons.utep.edu/city_direct/ Both are free. Online Resources http://www.epcounty.com/publicrecords/officialpublicrecords/OfficialPublicRecordSearch.aspx free. Open Records( Birth,Marriage,Deeds,and other legal records.) https://www.familysearch.org/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://newspaperarchive.com/(free if
- [Edith Halies Healy: Ysleta School and Church Pioneer](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/10/15/edith-halies-healy-an-ysleta-school-and-church-pioneer/) - Edith Hailes was born in a house on the 600 block of Campbell street, her father was an employee of the Railroads. Edith married Jerry Healy and had 5 children. Edith lived in Odessa for 10 years and was named "Odessa Catholic Mother of the Year." The Healys bought a house on 7881 Alameda and
- [Louise Seymour: The Lady Rancher from Canutillo](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/10/12/louise-seymour-of-canutillo-an-pioneer-woman-rancher/) - Louise Seymour was born in 1900 in Evanson, Indiana. Seymour came to Canutillo after WWII with her brother, Bill. Seymour was interested in the stories of her brothers journey and experiences in the West that came in letters he sent to her. Bill had been stationed at Ft. Bliss during WWII and stayed West, seeking
- [Little Known Communities of the Lower Valley: Past and Present.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/10/18/little-known-communities-of-the-lower-valley-past-and-present/) - Several of theses communities in El Paso county incorporated expect Belen,because they was afraid of annexation by El Paso .The Current status of some of theses communities are unknown. Casey was incorporated was in 1963. It was east of Clint,included several farms. It had a active local government. The first mayor was Henry A. Beene
- [57th Annual Hall of Honor Recipients](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/09/15/57th-annual-hall-of-honor-recipients/) - The El Paso County Historical Society is pleased to announce its selections for the 57th Hall of Honor. This year’s honorees are: Alex and Patti Apostolides, Former Mayor Don Henderson, James Peak, and Former Mayor Bert Williams. The event will be held Sunday, November 5, 2017, at the El Paso Country Club, 5000 Country Club Pl, El
- [The First Lady of the  White House Department Store: Deane Miller](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/09/11/the-frist-lady-of-the-whitehouse-department-deane-miller-draft/) - The First Lady of the Whitehouse Department Store : Deane Miller Dr. Willard Schuessler, Deane Miller and George Broderson of the Sun Carnival Association. Photo is courtesy of the El Paso Historical Society. Deane Miller and her husband, Richard, founded the Velvet Door's Beauty Salon and Cosmetics Distributors in 1968. Miller served as president and had
- [El Paso County Historical Society Statement on Union Plaza Neighborhood](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/09/15/el-paso-county-historical-society-statement-on-union-plaza-neighborhood/) - September 15, 2017 The El Paso County Historical Society (EPCHS) was founded in 1954 by residents concerned with protecting El Paso’s historical and cultural heritage. Today, the Society works to preserve, protect, and share El Paso’s history with the public. It is for this reason that we release the following statement regarding the events taking
- [Warner Drug Company](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/08/27/warner-pharmacy-draft/) - Warner Drug Company Warner Pharmacy was founded in 1913 by Milton A. Warner who came to El Paso after running a general store in Parral, Mexico. Warner left Parral because of the Mexican Revolution. Warner was born in Warsaw, Indiana and came to Silver City, N.M. to work
- [Emma Capeheart:  Pioneer El Paso Beauty Professional](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/08/21/emma-capeheart-pioneer-el-paso-beauty-professional/) - Emma Capeheart: Pioneer El Paso Beauty Professional. Emma Capeheat was an early El Paso Businesswoman who owned and ran several beauty salons in the 1920s and 1930s. Capeheart was known for her modern hair styling faculties and also for her skills in hair weaving . In 1922, Capeheart was running a beauty salon on 908
- [Short History on Nurseries in El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/08/25/nurseries-in-el-paso/) - Nurseries in El Paso: a Short History on Nurseries in El Paso Jeanie Potter and her brother H.L., opened the first floral shop in El Paso in 1906. This first floral shop was also a grocery store. It was located in Hotel Husseman and H.L. built two green houses on Kansas street. Their first greenhous
- [Corinne A. Hartman: Founder of Hartman Flower Shop.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/08/11/corinne-a-hartman-founder-of-hartman-flower-shop/) - Corinne A. Hartman: Founder of Hartman Flower Shop. Corinne A. Hartman came to El Paso in 1913 from Albuquerque Along with her son they opened their own floral shop in 1921. The Hartman Flower Shop it was in several locations, at one point it in the mills building. In 1916, Hartman bought land from Frank
- [El Paso Women and Equestrian Sports Part two: 1940s-1970s](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/08/13/el-paso-women-and-equestrian-sports-part-two-1940s-1970s-draft/) - El Paso Women and Equestrian Sports Part two: 1940s-1970s Winalin Griffin rode in show for the El Paso Riding and Driving Club held in 1944 with her horse “Red,” proving herself as a jumper. The first Show was held at the Del Norte Saddlery. Griffin recollected that there was just a dozen members, but By
- [A Tribute to Frank W. Gorman, Jr.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/08/17/a-tribute-to-frank-w-gorman-jr/) - It is with extreme sadness that the El Paso County Historical Society notes the death of Mr. Frank Gorman, Jr., former president of the organization, co-sponsor of the Gorman Award at El Paso History Day, and friend of the Society. Below is his obituary as it appears on the Martin Funeral Home site. Our hearts
- [El Paso Women  and Equestrian Sports Part One : 1914 to 1930s](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/08/11/el-paso-women-and-equestrian-sports-part-one-1914-to-1930s/) - El Paso Women and Equestrian Sports Part One : 1914 to 1930s El Paso women horse riders proved they could be just good as men when completing in equestrian sports. The El Paso Horse and Driving Club was founded in 1944, with Mrs. Joseph Carter as was one of the organizers. They
- [El Paso Women Pioneering Athletes: Bowling](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/08/06/el-paso-women-athletes-bowling-draft/) - El Paso Women Pioneering Athletes: Bowling The El Paso Women's Bowling Association was founded in 1936. It was also granted a charter from the Intentional Women Bowling Congress. Among charter members of the organization was: Luree Robbins,Marie Willis,Louise Adams, Pearl Paden,Evelyn Brownfield, Mamie Teller, Mary Mogel,Nora Green,Vins Diehl,Helen Lange,Lillian Drehner, and Carrie Ford. Thelma
- [Mystery solved: Lolita around the corner](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/08/07/mystery-solved-lolita-around-the-corner/) - Walking down Texas Avenue recently, I noticed a weathered, sun-beaten sign atop a building at the corner of Texas and Oregon Street. "AROUND CORNER: Lolita," it read. I walked around said corner but found no teenage nymphette from that book by Nabokov, nor any evidence that she had been there. (The 1997 film remake did
- [El Paso Women Pioneering Athletes: Golf](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/08/02/el-paso-women-pioneering-athletes-golf/) - El Paso Women Pioneering Athletes: Golf Photo Credit: El Paso County Historical Society. In 1926, the Tuesday Women's Golf Club was organized at the El Paso Country Club. Charter members of the organization were Mary Morgan, Reba Armstrong, Mrs. Peyton Edward, Mrs. Ernest Hiles, Mrs. A.L. Cox, Frances Vance, Mrs. Otis Cole, Mrs. Will
- ["Ostriches, Eggs and Young Birds in Washington Park"](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/07/15/ostrichseggs-and-young-birds-in-washington-park-el-paso-times-aug-231925-by-col-m-l-crimmins/) - El Paso Times, Aug. 23, 1925 Birds at Washington Park By Col. M.L. Crimmins While looking over the animals at Washington Park the other day I spoke to the head keeper, B.F. Van Horn, about the ostriches. He told me these birds were so little known that a very intelligent-looking middle-aged woman came to the
- [City of El Paso Once Sold Two of Its Streets to Pay the Salary of Its Marshall by G.A. Martin--March 24, 1922](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/08/04/city-of-el-paso-once-sold-two-of-its-streets-to-pay-the-salary-of-its-marshall-by-g-a-martin-march-24-1922/) - The following story appeared in the March 24, 1922 edition of the El Paso Herald: Note: This article makes reference to Ben Dowell as Ben "McDowell." Photos were added by El Paso County Historical Society to augment article. By G.A. Martin El Paso once sold two of its streets at public auction, "because the city
- [Stay Connected](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/10/frontpage-below-the-fold-1/)
- [Dr. Vilas had big impact in El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/07/30/dr-vilas-had-big-impact-in-el-paso/) - Walter Nathaniel Vilas brought big ideas, big names and big events to his adopted home of El Paso in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Dr. Vilas was born on Sept. 11, 1847, in Red Creek, Wayne County, N.Y. He was one of seven children of Dr. Calvin Vilas and Mary Catherine Ford. The
- [The Pershing Theater: 2905 Pershing Drive](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/07/29/pershing-theater-2905-pershing-dr/) - A newspaper clipping from March 29,1940 from the El Paso Herald Post about the construction of Pershing Theater in the Five Points Area. The construction of the Pershing Theater started in 1939. The Pershing Theater Opened on March 28,1940. -Joseph Longo
- [Wingo Home hosted parties, animals and soldiers](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/07/09/wingo-home-hosted-parties-animals-and-soldiers/) - The Tullius M. Wingo House at 4115 Trowbridge was designed by Henry Trost in 1907. When it was built, the home stood alone among the sand dunes with no neighbors close by. According to an article in the Aug. 14, 1935, edition of the El Paso Herald, the home's interior design was commissioned
- [Salazar versus Westfall](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/05/23/salazar-versus-westfall/) - In 1979, Mayor Ray Salazar was running for a second term, and many observers believed he would be re-elected without much trouble. Then came retired FBI Agent Tom Westfall. Westfall and his campaign manager, historian Leon Metz, ran a vigorous campaign, with conservatives as their core constituency. Westfall made an issue of the construction of
- [Eva Cunningham of Ysleta](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/05/26/eva-cunningham-of-ysleta/) - Eva Cunningham moved to El Paso in 1907. She grew up with a love of gardening. Her mother gave each of her children a little plot in their yard so they could grow their own garden. Eva married Clifford D. Cunningham. Eva was active in the Lower Valley Garden Club for years. Cunningham taught floral
- [Patricia Wolfe of Jerry's Restaurants](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/05/28/patricia-wolf-of-jerrys-restaurants/) - Patricia Wolfe Wyatts and her first husband, Jerry Wolfe, came to El Paso in 1948 to work as operators for Sky Chief, operators of restaurants at the El Paso Airport. He was previously stationed at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. They opened the La Ponda Motel on Paisano. They also operated the Covered Wagon
- [Virginia Storm Turner: El Paso Newspaperwoman](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/06/11/virginia-storm-turner/) - Virginia Storm Turner was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Ole Storm and his wife Henrietta. She came to El Paso and graduated from Ysleta High School. Turner attended George Washington College in Washington, D.C., and UTEP. Turner started working as a cub reporter for the El Paso Herald-Post in 1944 and in
- [El Paso Herald-Post "Women of the Year" 1965](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/06/15/el-paso-herald-post-woman-of-the-year-1965/) - In 1965, El Paso Herald-Post awarded its first "Women of the Year" to women in each of seven fields. The awards were announced in the newspaper's March 20, 1965, edition. Business: Dess Metcalfe was a member of the first group of the Women's Army Corps who were deployed overseas. She also served as assistant chief
- [Ashley's Mexican Restaurant and Canning](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/06/18/ashleys/) - Ashley's Mexican Restaurant and Canning was founded in 1931 by George Ashley. The sole investor in the business was George's business-minded mother, Ida Ashley. Ashley's Mexican Restaurant was considered a pioneer in the reinvention of Mexican restaurants in El Paso. The business was family run, with George's wife and children playing a role. Some of the
- [Ysleta Cowboy Park](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/06/20/ysleta-cowboy-park/) - In 1944, Cowboy Park opened in Ysleta, a 24-acre recreation area developed by Sheriff Chris Fox and supported by a group of businessmen. The purpose was to promote horse sports. A stadium with 3,000 seats, a five-mile track and 160 stables was built. The creation of the park was to make El Paso a training spot
- [Twin Sisters Taught at Roosevelt Elementary School for 32 Years](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/05/23/the-twins-sisters-who-were-teachers-at-roosevelt-elementary-school-for-32-years/) - Two longtime teachers decided to call it quits in 1976 after 32 years teaching at Roosevelt Elementary. They were identical twin sisters, Mary Etta and Mary Ella Banks. The Bankses were born in Arkansas City, Ark., and came to El Paso at the age of 3 with their father, Rev. F.L. Banks, and their mother. The
- [Downtown Survey--Presentation by Hardy Heck Moore and County of El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/06/29/downtown-survey-presentation-by-hardy-heck-moore-and-county-of-el-paso/) - On Tuesday, June 27, 2017, the County of El Paso, along with historians/representatives from Hardy Heck Moore, Inc., presented their plans for the Downtown historical and architectural survey currently underway. Below is the presentation offered to the public during the event. Presentation - FINAL 6-27-17
- [Password XXII, 1977](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/19/password-xxii-1977/) - Password Volume XXII, Numbers 1-4 from 1977 Volume XXII, No. 1, Spring 1977 Oral History: Law Enforcement in El Paso, Allen G. Falby, Moderator, Mrs. Callie Fairley, E.A. (Dogie) Wright, Tony Trujillo, Chris P. Fox El Paso's Petrified Giant by Robert N. Mullin Historical Memories Contest Smallpox-and the El Paso Pest House by Alexine Bartz Memories
- [Password XLIV, 1999](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/05/password-xliv-1999/) - Password Volume XLIV, Numbers 1-4 from 1999 Volume XLIV, No. 1, Spring 1999 El Paso's Paramount-Publix Theatre, A Brief Historical Overview by John Martin West The Camino Real at the Pass: The Economy and Political Structure of the Paso Del Norte Area in the Eighteenth Century by Dr. Rick Hendricks And All Through the House by
- [Women in El Paso History part 1](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/02/14/women-in-el-paso-history-part-2/) - Click on each photo to see each woman's biography.
- [El Conquistador Spring 2017](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/05/15/el-conquistador-spring-2017/) - Click the image below to read the Spring 2017 edition of El Conquistador.
- [The El Paso mayor's race of 1981](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/05/05/the-el-paso-mayors-race-of-1981/) - In 1980 Mayor Tom Westfall announced his would not run for reelection in 1981. Ray Pearson and Jonathan Rogers emerged as the front runners. Pearson was a democratic party activist, lawyer and had a lot of political influence. Pearson also served as chair of the City Housing Authority and public service commissions. He had a
- [The El Paso Mayor's Race of 1975](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/04/18/the-el-paso-mayors-race-of-1975/) - In 1974, Mayor Fred Hervey decided not to run for reelection in 1975 and backed parks and recreation alderman, Don Henderson,who was elected on the Fred Hervey slate of candidates in 1973. Henderson emerged as the front runner . Henderson ran a low key campaign,running on his experience in government and in business. Fiscal Responsibility
- [Photos: Ernst and Olga Kohlberg](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/04/03/photos-ernst-and-olga-kohlberg/) - Ernst Kohlberg, founder of the first cigar factory in the Southwest, was born in 1857 in Prussia came to El Paso with Solomon C. Schutz in 1875. Kohlberg agreed to work for Schutz, without pay for up to a year, to pay for his passage to Texas. After working for Schutz for eight months, Schutz
- [Hotel Paso Del Norte/Camino Real  (1912-1990)](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/02/10/hotel-paso-del-nortecamino-real-transformation-1912-1990/)
- [Photos: Early Businesses](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/15/features-images-feb/) - In the late 1880's the population of El Paso was about 800 brave souls. With the arrival of the railroad in 1881 that all changed. The population boomed and businesses sprouted up and flourished. Following is a sampling of photos of some early El Paso businesses from our archives.
- [Edie Rubalcuba: El Paso's First Female District Clerk](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/03/24/edie-rubalcuba-first-el-paso-woman-district-clerk/) - Edelmira "Edie" Salazar was born in El Paso in 1936 . She attended San Jacinto and Alamo Elementary schools and graduated from Bowie High School in 1955. Rubalcaba worked at Midland Specialty and J.C. Penny. She married Art Rubalcaba, and they raised two children together. Rubalcaba started a long career in the El Paso County District
- [Kay Deaver](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/03/11/kay-deaver/) - Katherine "Kay" Deaver was born in Dayton, Ohio. She had no formal but was educated by a private tutor. She studied Math and Latin. Deaver moved to Cleveland where she worked in the fashion department of Halle Brother's Department Store. She later became a buyer for the store, buying jewelry, neck ware, and other accessories
- [Julia Breck: Ahead Of Her Time](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/03/04/julia-breck-ahead-of-her-time-part-1/) - Julia Breck, a local club women and outspoken community leader, ran for mayor of El Paso in 1961. She was the first women to run for that position and the first women to run for any city office in decades. She had little money and organization but Breck was no token candidate, she give the
- ["Hurricane Isabel"](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/02/13/hurricane-isabel-drafts/) - Isabel Adbou Hatchett was organizer and the first president of the Miners Co-Ed Association, Women's Division. The group met at what later became Cathedral High School. Her father was born in west Syria and opened a produce store in 1915. Hatchett was the first woman to graduate from the TWC's (now the University of Texas
- [Dr. Ann Brennan Damiani](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/02/21/9741/) - the article shown above is from Dec 27, 1974, El Paso Herald-Post Dr. Ann Brennan Damiani was born and raised in El Paso. She was the daughter of James and Lilian Brennan. Dr. Damiani graduated from the Texas Medical School in Galveston. Damiani became a neuropsychiatrist and was one of the handful and the first women psychiatrists
- [Dr. Rene Noren](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/02/14/dr-rene-noren/) - Dr. Rene Noren was born in 1926 in Chicago. She earned a B.S. from Roosevelt University and earned a degree from Kirkville College of Osteopathy. She opened up her own clinic in El Paso in 1955 called, Park Foothills Hospital Clinic. Dr. Noren served as an examiner for the Federal Aviation Agency and for the Association of Aerospace Medicine. She was named in "Who's
- [Password LIX, 2015](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/12/password-lix-2015/) - Password Volume LIX, Numbers 1-4 from 2015 Volume LIX, No. 1, Spring 2015 America's Fighting Dollars: The World War II Bond Drive In Two Texas Cities by Molly Butler Polly Harris: Not Your Typical Politician by Joseph Longo Book Review My Boys and Girls are in There by Patricia H. Worthington Volume LIX, No. 2,
- [Password LVIII, 2014](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/11/password-lviii-2014/) - Password Volume LVIII, Numbers 1-4 from 2014 Volume LVIII, No. 1, Spring 2014 The 60th Anniversary of the El Paso County Historical Society Your President Reports Paul A. Heisig, Jr., 1955 Common Punishments for Common Crimes: The Early Mann Act and Sexual Control at the US-Mexico Borderlands by Grace Pena Delgado El Paso's 1915 Marihuana
- [Password LVII, 2013](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/11/password-lvii-2013/) - Password Volume LVII, Numbers 1-4 from 2013 Volume LVII, No. 1, Spring 2013 "C" is for Climate: El Paso as a Health Resort, 1880-1940 by Mark Cioc-Ortega El Paso County Historical Society Suggestions for One's Library or Special Occasions The Hendricks Sanatorium: A Modern Institution for the Treatment of Tuberculosis, Reprint of the Facility Brochure
- [Password LVI, 2012](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/11/password-lvi-2012/) - Password Volume LVI, Numbers 1-4 from 2012 Volume LVI, No. 1, Spring 2012 Aiming for the Skies Over Fort Bliss, The Arrival of the Antiaircraft, 1940 by John Hamilton Charles K. Hamilton: A Bird Man Over the Pass by Esteban Vazquez The Murder of Ernst Kohlberg by Mark Cioc-Ortega and Evelina Ortega Reflections on My
- [Password LV, 2010/2011](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/11/password-lv-lvi-20102011/) - Password Volume LV, Numbers 1-4 from 2010/2011 Volume LV, No. 1, Spring 2010/2011 Hall of Honor 2010 Laurance N. Nickey, M.D., E.A.A.P. by Sarah McKnight Richard Moberly Dudley by Judith P. Goggin, Ph.D. Jack Caruthers Vowell, Jr by Albert Haag Building the Plaza Theater and Other Landmarks Remembered by Kurt Goetting From the Archives: History
- [Women's Suffrage in El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/02/10/women-suffrage-in-el-paso/) - On Jan 12, 1915, the El Paso chapter of the National Franchise League organized at hotel Orndorff. The first president was Azina Orndorff DeGroff, who operated the Orndorff Hotel. Charter members of the group were Olga Kohlberg, who founded the first free kindergarten in Texas and served as president of the El Paso Library Association; Blanche Averill who
- [Password LIV, 2009](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/10/password-liv-2009/) - Password Volume LIV, Numbers 1-4 from 2009 Volume LIV, No. 1, Spring 2009 The Fire Fight at Palvo Ford, Texas, March 22, 1918 by Gerald G. Raun Hut Brown by Ruth E. Gillett Resisting the Ku Klux Klan in El Paso by Carol Price Miller For the Record-Correcting Myths & Misconceptions by Richard Bussell El Paso
- [Password LIII, 2008](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/10/password-liii-2008/) - Password Volume LIII, Numbers 1-4 from 2008 Volume LIII, No. 1, Spring 2008 Morality and Money on the Border: The Reverend Bob Jones Crusade, El Paso 1922 by Dr. Robin Robinson Reformers Fight Saloon Men in El Paso County Attorney's Election (or were they Reformers?) by Ken Jackson Miss Fanny by Mardee de Wetter A River
- [Password LII, 2007](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/09/password-lii-2007/) - Password Volume LII, Numbers 1-4 from 2007 Volume LII, No. 1, Spring 2007 Revolutionary El Paso: 1910-1917 by Mardee de Wetter El Paso's Midwinter Carnival Carol Price Miller Ten Years on the Trail of a Colossus by Nicholas P. Houser Civil War Hispanics: The Other Side of the Story by Jose L. Gonzalez Book Review Albert
- [Password LI, 2006](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/08/password-li-2006/) - Password Volume LI, Numbers 1-4 from 2006 Volume LI, No. 1, Spring 2006 El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro through the Pass of the North, Part II by George D. Torok Tour of Homes by Password staff A Treasure from the Closet by Barbara Dent Wanda de Turczynowicz-El Paso Artist by Richard A. Dugan Let’s Get
- [Password L, 2005](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/08/password-l-2005/) - Password Volume L, Numbers 1-4 from 2005 Volume L, No. 1, Spring 2005 Jose Felix Trespalacios by Richard Baquera Augustus Koch’s “Bird’s-Eye view of El Paso Map: Observations and Oddities by Richard F. Bussell Tigua Indians and El Paso at the Texas State Centennial exposition, Part II by Nicholas P. Houser Charles Ellis 1877 Salt War
- [Password Volume XLIX, 2004](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/08/password-volume-xlix-2004/) - Volume XLIX, No. 1, Spring 2004 Red Metal on the Rio Grande: How Phelps Dodge Came to El Paso by George Bailey Growing Up Next to Fort Bliss by Frank G. McKnight The Interurban to Ysleta: The Rio Grande Valley Traction Company, 1913-1929 by Ron Dawson Etiquette of the Gay Nineties Barq’s Bottling Company and
- [Password XLVIII, 2003](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/06/password-xlviii-2003/) - Password Volume XLVIII, Numbers 1-4 from 2003 Volume XLVIII, No. 1, Spring 2003 An Introduction to the Missions of the Paso del Norte Area by Rex Gerald The Merchants and the Military by W.H. Timmons Rails to the Pass of the North by Edward A. Leonard Chihuahuita: A Neglected Corner of El Paso by Fred M.
- [Password XLVI, 2001](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/06/password-xlvi-2001/) - Password Volume XLVI, Numbers 1-4 from 2001 Volume XLVI, No. 1, Spring 2001 Hall of Honor Tribute to Leonard Woody L. Hunt by Dr. Diana Natalicio Tribute: The Saga of Owen P. White by Leon Metz A Letter from the Past by Owen P. White Thomas Calloway "Tom" Lea by anonymous Response by Tom Lea 1975
- [Password XLV, 2000](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/05/password-xlv-2000/) - Password Volume XLV, Numbers 1-4 from 2000 Volume XLV, No. 1, Spring 2000 Hall of Honor Tribute to Leonard Aaron Goodman by Amelia Goodman Krohn Tribute to Richard Warren Mithoff Gentle Musing: My Early Memories by Colbert Coldwell Partisan Politics and Progress: Roosevelt's New Deal in New Mexico by Arden R. Nance It Was a dam
- [Password XLIII, 1998](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/05/password-xliii-1998/) - Password Volume XLIII, Numbers 1-4 from 1998 Volume XLIII, No. 1, Spring 1998 John Potts of Chihuahua by R.B. Brown Tribute to Frank Dr. Walter Vilas by Patrick Rand Tribute to Ellis O. Mayfield by Frank McKnight Johnny Gringo at the Pass of the North by John Porter Bloom An Old-Fashioned Christmas by Marilyn Gross Born
- [Password XLII, 1997](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/30/password-xlii-1997/) - Password Volume XLII, Numbers 1-4 from 1997 Volume XLII, No. 1, Spring 1997 The First Japanese in El Paso, 1890-1914 by Christie C. Armendariz Hall of Honor Tribute to Frank H. Feuille III by Richard H. Feuille, Frank Feuille, IV Tribute to Peter de Wetter by Gertrude A. Goodman Bullfights on the Border: A History of
- [Confused? Clarifying the Differences between the County Historical Society and the County Historical Commission](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/02/01/confused-clarifying-the-differences-between-the-county-historical-society-and-the-county-historical-commission/) - Since I started my work here in March 2015, I have been asked countless times: "What is the difference between the El Paso County Historical Society and the El Paso County Historical Commission? Is there a difference at all?" Indeed there is. This post should clarify some of the confusion. 1.) We are different types
- [The El Paso Mayor race of 1973](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2017/01/29/the-el-paso-mayor-race-of-1973-draft/) - In 1973, Mayor Bert Williams ran for a second term despite some controversies during his administration. The mayor split with his city council, even with those who ran on his ticket in 1971, when he won a close race over contractor and city public works alderman, Clinton Wolf. All of his team members expect, one
- [Password XLI, 1996](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/30/password-xli-1996/) - Password Volume XLI, Numbers 1-4 from 1996 Volume XLI, No. 1, Spring 1996 Genial Sociability by Carolyn Mayfield Driver Porter Award Announce Incident at Apache Pass by Charles K. Mill Hall of Honor Tribute to Harry Howard Varner by Jack C. Vowell Tribute to Myrna Deckert by Charles H. Leavell, Jeanne McCarty, Joyce Jaynes Abandoned Terrazas
- [Password XXXVIII, 1993](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/29/password-xxxvii-1993/) - Password Volume XXXVIII, Numbers 1-4 from 1993 Volume XXXVIII, No. 1, Spring 1993 Hillsboro, New Mexico A Town Neglected by Historians by Mickey Monett Hall of Honor 1992 Tribute to Ben Dowell by Nancy Hamilton Tribute to Alice Pierce Barry by Margo Burchell Adams Tribute to Louis W. Brick, M.D. by Laurance N. Nickey, M.D. The
- [Password XL, 1995](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/29/password-xxxx-1995/) - Password Volume XL, Numbers 1-4 from 1995 Volume XL, No. 1, Spring 1995 Concordia Cemetery by Patrick Rand B'Nai Zion Cemetery by Hymer E. Rosen Hall of Honor Tribute to Juana Azcarate de Stephenson by Susan B. Mayfield Tribute to William Michie Coldwell by Colbert Coldwell Tribute to Eliseo H. (E.H. Baeza by Donald S. Henderson
- [Password XXXIX, 1994](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/29/password-xxxix-1994/) - Password Volume XXXIX, Numbers 1-4 from 1994 Volume XXXIX, No. 1, Spring 1994 A Century of Growth: The El Paso Public Library, 1894-1994 by Mary A. Sarber Hall of Honor 1993 Tribute to H.D. Slater by Tom King Tribute to Florence Cathcart Melby by Helen Walker Tribute to Richard C. White by Charles R. Schulte Growing
- [Password XXXVII, 1992](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/28/password-xxxvii-1992/) - Password Volume XXXVII, Numbers 1-4 from 1992 Volume XXXVII, No. 1, Spring 1992 An 1890 View of El Paso's Business Prospects by Francis L. Fugate and Roberta B. Fugate A New Light on the September Rebellion of 1922 by Art Leibson Siege at Hueco Tanks by Wayne R. Austerman The Columbian Quincentenary The Benavides Memorial by
- [Password XXXVI, 1991](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/28/password-xxxvi-1991/) - Password Volume XXXVI, Numbers 1-4 from 1991 Volume XXXVI, No. 1, Spring 1991 The Gallinas Massacre and the death of Captain James Graydon by Jerry Thompson Chihuahuita: A Neglected Corner of El Paso by Fred M. Morales In Tribute to Drusilla Tandy Nixon by Sarah E. John The Press for Repeal: El Paso Newspapers Led the
- [Password XXXV, 1990](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/28/password-xxxv-1990/) - Password Volume XXXV, Numbers 1-4 from 1990 Volume XXXV, No. 1, Spring 1990 Forgotten Color: Black Families in Early El Paso by Charlotte Ivy The Ordeal of Jane Adeline Wilson by Wayne R. Austerman The El Paso Medical Center by Henry D. Garrett, M.D. The News at the Pass-One Centry Ago by Damon Garben The valentine
- [Password XXIV, 1989](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/28/password-xxiv-1989/) - Password Volume XXXIV, Numbers 1-4 from 1989 Volume XXXIV, No. 1, Spring 1989 The Sport of Kings at the Pass of the North by Ray Sanchez The El Paso County Historical Society Hall of Honor-1988 Tribute to Jeanie MacCallum Frank by Judge Morris A. Galatzan Tribute to Thomas Jeremiah Beall by Tad Smith Tribute to Millard George McKinney
- [Password XXXI, 1986](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/28/password-xxxi-1986/) - Password Volume XXXI, Numbers 1-4 from 1986 Volume XXXI, No. 1, Spring 1986 W.H. Horne and the Mexican War Photo Postcard Company by Mary A. Sarber The El Paso County Historical Society Hall of Honor-1885 Tribute to William H. Burges by J.F. Hulse Tribute to William I. Latham by Patrick Rand Black Cowboys Also Rode by Barbara
- [Password XXX, 1985](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/22/password-xxx-1985/) - Password Volume XXX, Numbers 1-3 from 1985 Volume XXX, No. 1, Spring 1985 A Church is Born by Verdon R. Adams The El Paso County Historical Society Hall of Honor - 1984 Tribute to Anson Mills by Leon C. Metz Tribute to Manuel Gregorio Acosta by Gertrude Goodman One Century Ago by Art Leibson A Decade
- [Password XXIX, 1984](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/22/password-xxix-1984/) - Password Volume XXIX, Numbers 1-3 from 1984 Volume XXIX, No. 1, Spring 1984 Hall of Honor Address 1983: Crossroads of History by James M. Day Tribute to Felix Martinez by Deane Miller Tribute to Elizabeth Hooks Kelly by Margaret Mathis The Tarahumars of Chihuahua and the Agrarian Problem by John H. McNeely Dog Canyon: A Pageant
- [Password XXIV, 1979](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/25/password-xxiv-1979/) - Password Volume XXIV, Numbers 1-4 from 1979 Volume XXIV, No. 1, Spring 1979 Hall of Honor Address by Patrick Rand Tribute To Robert Randolph Jones by Francis C. Broaddus, Jr. Tribute To Dr. Edward William Rheinheimer by William I. Latham El Paso: Mining Hub For Northern Mexico, 1880-1920 by James M. Day Towns of El Paso
- [Password XXI, 1976](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/28/password-xxi-1976/) - Password Volume XXI, Numbers 1-4 from 1976 Volume XXI, No. 1. Spring 1976 Bicentennial El Paso edited by W.H. Timmons Dr. William Martin Yandell by Janet Y. Brockmoller The Dream-Elephant Butte Dam by Chris P. Fox Historical Memories Contest Before the Turn of the Century by Alma North Ferguson The Lodge Burns Down in Cloudcroft by
- [Password XX, 1975](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/28/password-xx-1975/) - Password Volume XX, Numbers 1-4 from 1975 Volume XX, No. 1. Spring 1975 Eugene O. Porter-1899-1975 by Conrey Bryson Where is that Buried Treasure? by Robert N. Mullin Memories of the Magoffin Homestead by Sister Josephine Lucker Growth of the Mormon Church in El Paso by Ellen B. Whipple Across Northern Mexico with Wislizenus Notes by
- [Password XXXII, 1987](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/26/password-xxxii-1987/) - Password Volume XXXII, Numbers 1-4 from 1987 Volume XXXII, No. 1, Spring 1987 Grutas at the Crossroads of the Spanish Southwest by John O. West The El Paso County Historical Society Hall of Honor 1986 Tribute to Mrs. Guy Hallett Johnson by Hallett Mengel Luscombe Tribute to Karl Otto Wyler by John Phelan Captain Madison and
- [Password XXXIII, 1988](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/26/password-xxxiii-1988/) - Password Volume XXXIII, Numbers 1-4 from 1988 Volume XXXIII, No. 1, Spring 1988 The El Paso County Historical Society Hall of Honor 1987 Tribute to Dorrance D. Roderick by William I. Latham Tribute to Gertrude Amelia Goodman by Sara Stevens McKnight Our Town-One Century Ago (January-March, 1888) by Art Leibson Bravo 1795: An Inventory of the
- [Password XIX, 1974](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/23/password-xix-1974/) - Password Volume XIX, Numbers 1-4 from 1974 Volume XIX, No. 1. Spring 1974 Memories: El Paso High School Sixty Years Ago by I.B. Goodman Title Cloud Over the Texas Capitol by J.J. Bowden A Replacement's Walk Down the Santa Fe Trail by Russel W. Van Norman Book Reviews Porter, San Elizario: A History Ray, Marvin Jones
- [Password XI, 1966](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/20/password-xi-1966/) - Password Volume XI, Numbers 1-4 from 1966 Volume XI, No. 1. Spring 1966 Names in a Pawn Shop: A Study of Navajo Name by Lurline Coltharp Fort Bliss Diary: 1854-1868 by Richard K. McMaster El Paso in 1911 by H.D. Slater, an. by Eugene O. Porter The Constitution of the El Paso County Historical Society Book
- [Password XVIII, 1983](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/22/password-xviii-1983/) - Password Volume XXVIII, Numbers 1-4 from 1983 Volume XXVIII, No. 1, Spring 1983 Tinaja de las Palmas by Wayne R. Austerman Father's Trip West compiled by Chester Lumpkins Bird's Eve View of El Paso, Circa, 1885 by Millard G. McKinneyA Boarding House Saga by Laura Scott Meyers Historical Memories Contest The House with Peace by John
- [Password XVII, 1982](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/22/password-xvii-1982/) - Password Volume XXVII, Numbers 1-4 from 1982 Volume XXVII, No. 1, Spring 1982 Parker Burnham, An Expressman of Old El Paso by Wayne R. Austerman Contemporary Civil Rights Issues As Affected by Events in El Paso by Conrey Bryson An Interview With Mrs. Enriqueta Lopez by Janet Brockmoller Texas capitol Centennial by R.R. Fehrenbach Historical Memories
- [Thank you for becoming a member](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2013/01/21/thank-you-for-becoming-a-member/) - Thank you for becoming an El Paso County Historical Society member. Please check the email used for the PayPal payment to complete your online registration for access to the members only area.
- [Password XXVI, 1981](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/21/password-xxvi-1981/) - Password Volume XXVI, Numbers 1-4 from 1981 Volume XXVI, No. 1, Spring 1981 The El Paso Centennial Museum by Esther Thompson Cornell Historical Memories Contest The Sunset Heights Reading Club by Constance R. White El Paso Documentary II: The Arrival of the Pueblo Revolt Refugees by W..H. Timmons Viva!-Franciscan Refugees at Mescalero by Dorothy Emerson Yeager
- [Password XV, 1980](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/21/password-xv-1980/) - Password Volume XXV, Numbers 1-4 from 1980 Volume XXV, No. 1, Spring 1980 Identifying a "Lost" Stage Station in Jeff Davis County by Wayne R. Austerman Historical Memories Contest My Recollections of the Orozco Family and the Mexican Revolution of 1910 by Serafina Orozco vda. de Blanco A Confederate Soldier's Letter From Fort Bliss, July 6,
- [Password XXIII, 1978](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/20/password-xxiii-1978/) - Password Volume XXIII, Numbers 1-4 from 1978 Volume XXIII, No. 1, Spring 1978 El Paso's Splendid Little War by Garna L. Christian On the Border-Car Thievery in the 30's by Chris P. Fox Historical Memories Contest My First Job by E.R. Bowman Book Reviews Mangan: The Pipeliners, El Paso Natural Gas Company Peterson and Knoles: Pancho
- [Password XVIII, 1973](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/18/password-xviii-1973/) - Password Volume XVIII, Numbers 1-4 from 1973 Volume XVIII, No. 1, Spring 1973 "Mama De": Tower Builder by Pierce and Orndorf, ed. by Collingwood The Attempted Payroll Robbery by Eugene O. Porter The Exchange by Chris P. Fox Down the Chihuahua Trail with Wislizenus Intro. & Notes by Eugene O. Porter (part 1 of several parts)
- [Password XVII, 1972](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/17/password-xvii-1972/) - Password Volume XVII, Numbers 1-4 from 1972 Volume XVII, No. 1, Spring 1972 Letters Home: W.W. Mills Writes to His Family, Intro & notes by Eugene O. Porter Doctors I Have Known by Anne Kemp White Posadas and Pinatas by Frances Hatfield Book Reviews Mangan, El Paso in Pictures Lee, 87 Paintings and Drawings by Tom
- [Password XVI, 1971](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/16/password-xvi-1971/) - Password Volume XVI, Numbers 1-4 from 1971 Volume XVI, No. 1, Spring 1971 "Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land" - The Story of the Liberty Bell by Eugene O. Porter On To White Oaks: The Story of the El Paso and Northeastern Railraod (part 1 of 2) by William T. Rabe Vilifications of Francisco Villa by Ruth
- [Password XV, 1970](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/15/password-xv-1970/) - Password Volume XV, Numbers 1-4 from 1970 Volume XV, No. 1, Spring 1970 Boyhood in Early El Paso-1903 by Bryan W. Brown The Defeat of Major I. Lynde, U.S.A. by Kenneth A. Goldblatt A History of the El Paso Water Works by Knud Howard Salveson Book Reviews Green, Ely, Too Black, Too White, by Robert M.
- [Password XIII, 1968](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/14/password-xiii-1968/) - Password Volume XIII, Numbers 1-4 from 1968 Volume XIII, No. 1, Spring 1968 The Double Life of Edwin Bliss Hill by Kenneth A. Goldblatt Negroes with Confederate Troops in West Texas and New Mexico by Martin Hardwick Hall The El Paso Volunteer Fire Department by Eugene O. Porter Book Reviews Raht, Confessions of a Fiddlefoot, by
- [Password XIV, 1969](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/15/password-xiv-1969/) - Password Volume XIV, Numbers 1-4 from 1969 Volume XIV, No. 1, Spring 1969 Pancho Villa's Capitulation: An Inside Look by Haldeen Braddy The Las Cruces Thirty-Four Answers "The School Question: by S.H. Newman IIII The Altar Bell of La Trinidad by Richard T. Copenbarger The Man For Whom Ciudad Juarez Was Named by Mary Ellen B.
- [Password XII, 1967](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/14/password-xii-1967/) - Password Volume XII, Numbers 1-4 from 1967 Volume XII, No. 1, Spring 1967 Pershing's Air Arm In Mexico by Haldeen Braddy San Elizario-Bower of Eden by Eugene O. Porter Gambling in El Paso by J.D. Ponder Book Reviews Wallace, Real De Catorce-The Incredible City, by Mary Ellen B. Porter Marchand, ed., News From Fort Craig, New
- [Password X, 1965](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/13/password-x-1965/) - Password Volume X, Numbers 1-4 from 1965 Volume X, No. 1, Spring 1965 Army Road-Building in New Mexico Territory: 1854-1861 by Jack L. Cross San Elizario-The Celebrations of the Saints by Eugene O. Porter Dallas Stoudenmire-El Paso's Most Famous Marshal by Stephen D. Harper The 5th United States Infantry in New Mexico by Richard K. McMaster
- [Password IX, 1964](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/13/password-ix-1964/) - Password Volume IX, Numbers 1-4 from 1964 Volume IX, No. 1, Spring 1964 Reminiscences of Frieda Freudenthal Mahbir by Floyd S. Fierman Southwestern Military Posts, 1849-1862 by Richard K. McMaster Book Reviews Strickland, Six Who Came to El Paso, by Marshall Hail Charleton & Poe, The History of the National Guard of New Mexico, 1606-1963, by
- [Password VIII, 1963](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/12/password-viii-1963/) - Password Volume VIII, Numbers 1-4 from 1963 Volume VIII, No. 1, Spring 1963 Richard Fenner Burges by C.L. Sonnichsen Maud Durlin Sullivan by Betty Mary Goetting The Rev. B.M.G. Williams by Conrey Bryson Records and Reminiscences of Old Fort Bliss by Richard K. McMasters A Color Portrait of a Pioneer, Samuel B. Gillett by Robert Vincent
- [Password VII, 1962](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/12/password-vii-1962/) - Password Volume VII, Numbers 1-4 from 1962 Volume VII, No. 1, Spring 1962 Pasan Por Aqui by Joseph Leach Biographical Sketch of James Wiley Magoffin by Richard C. White Biographical Sketch of Lawrence M. Lawson by Conrey Bryson Wagon Roads Across New Mexico: 1846-1860 Book Reviews Horn and Wallace, eds., Confederate Victories in the Southwest: Prelude
- [Password VI, 1961](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/10/password-vi-1961/) - Password Volume VI, Numbers 1-4 from 1961 Volume VI, No. 1, Spring 1961 Recollections of Camp Cotton by Albion Smith Spanish and Mexican Surveying Terms and Systems by Katherine H. White Book Reviews Sonnichsen, Tularosa: Last of the Frontier West, by John Middagh Perrigo, Our Spanish Southwest, by Alice D. Harvey Spencer, Gold Country, 1828-1858, by
- [Password V, 1960](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/08/password-v-1960/) - Password Volume V, Numbers 1-4 from 1960 Volume V, No. 1, Spring 1960 The Presidential Election of 1928 in El Paso County by Charles E. Hershberger The Guns of Valverde by Richard K. McMaster and George Ruhlen Book Reviews McCaleb, The Mier Expedition, by Eugene O. Porter Wilhem, Cavalcade of Hooves and Horns, by C.L. Sonnichsen
- [Password IV, 1959](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/07/password-iv-1959/) - Password Volume IV, Numbers 1-4 from 1959 Volume IV, No. 1, Spring 1959 El Paso - Fort Yuma Wagon Road: 1857-1860 by Jack C. Vowell, Jr. Fort Hancock-Last of the Frontier Forts by George Ruhlen The Development of Irrigation in the City of El Paso by Alice White Book Reviews Hoover, Early Days in the Mogollons,
- [Password III, 1958](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/07/password-iii-1958/) - Password Volume III, Numbers 1-4 from 1958 Volume III, No. 1, Spring 1958 The El Pas Tin Mine by Conrey Bryson The Journal of Ebenezer Hanna by Martin H. Hall The Recollections of Old Fort Bliss by Mrs. Robert Lee Howze Book Reviews Golden, The American Indian: Then and Now, by Eugene O. Porter Keleher, Violence
- [Early El Paso Women Fire Fighters](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/11/04/early-el-paso-women-fire-fighters/) - El Paso's first woman firefighter was Karla Paige Bedell-Wingfield. She graduated from the El Paso Fire Academy in April of 1993. Wingfield was the first woman in the 100 history of the El Paso Fire Department to do so. Wingfield later went on to become a nurse practitioner, practicing in El Paso. Stephanie Hornbuckle joined Wingfield as a
- [Harry Mitchell Brewery](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/11/11/harry-mitchell-brewery/) - Many people don't know about El Paso's rich beer history. Take a look at some photos we have of El Paso's prominent post-prohibition brewery owned by Harry Mitchell, as well as others of beer aficionados around town.
- [Debbie Reynold's El Paso Grandmother](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/30/debbie-reynolds-el-paso-grandmother/) - The date of this article is August 16, 1954, and it appeared in the El Paso Herald-Post Debbie Reynolds, Movie Star, Possesses 100 Dresses; Her El Paso Grandmother Helped to Make Some of Them Actress Born Here Earns $1250 Weekly, Saves Money, Lives on Budget, Likes Mexican Food By Virginia Turner Clothes worn by Debbie
- [Curator Corner: The First Switchboard in Ysleta was in 1913](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/21/curator-corner-the-first-switchboard-in-ysleta-was-in-1913/) - Mary ONeill-right, with helper, operating the first switchboard in Ysleta, Texas in 1913. Joseph Longo, EPHS Curator
- [Holiday Hours](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/26/holiday-hours/) - We will be closed December 26 and open the rest of the week by appointment only. Please email us at info@elpasohistory.com to schedule one. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year! We will reopen January 3, 2017 at 10am.
- [Curator Corner: The Demolition of the Old Ysleta Grade School Building](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/23/curator-corner-the-demolition-of-the-old-ysleta-grade-school-building/) - The Demolition of the Old Ysleta Grade School Building in the 1990s.
- [The El Paso Mayor Race of 1969](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/18/the-el-paso-mayor-race-of-1969/) - In 1969, Mayor Judson Williams did not seek reelection for a fourth term and resigned before the completion of his term. Peter DeWetter was elected to succeed Williams in 1969. DeWetter came to El Paso in 1951 and started his own storage business. DeWetter was president of Ok Van and Storage Co, El Paso Terminal Warehouse
- [History of Clint Schools](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/17/history-of-clint-schools/) - The school was established in Clint in 1886 by the women of the village. A fire burned down the school in 1901. In 1910 a new school building was built. In 1913 and 1921, new schools building replaced each other. Clint got it's name from Mary Clinton Collins who was one of the earliest settlers
- [Early Lower Valley Schools: History of Tornillo](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/14/history-of-tornillo-schools/) - It seems that before World War I, Tornillo did not have a permanent public school. In 1916 County Superintendent of Schools Myra Winkler appointed Maren Jensen to teach Tornillo's youth in an adobe building on a mesquite sand hill. In 1918 Winkler asked Mary Miller, whose brothers worked on Ivey-Dale Farm, to conduct a school
- [Pebble Hills Elementary: Home of the Bobcats](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/07/pebble-hills-elementary-home-of-the-bobcats/) - Pebble Hills was financed by a bond approved by voters in 1979 and in 1980 the Ysleta Independent School District opened the school at 11145 Edgemere Boulevard. A new addition was built to Pebble Hills in 1990 and the mascot is the bobcat. Walter Cross was the first principal. Cross taught at Marian Manor Elementary
- [The Lowenstein Family: Pioneer Family of Ysleta.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/10/the-lowenstein-family-pioneer-family-of-ysleta/) - Moritz Lowenstein was born in Westphalia, Germany, he immigrated to the United States in the 1850s. He first came to the El Paso area in 1863 while working for the Federal Government. In 1873 he married Juana Buchanan, daughter of James Buchanan and Magdalena De Diaz. James was a U.S.Consul in Mexico and Moritz worked
- [Identified: Rachel Pierce, Bearl Nichols wedding](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/11/identified-rachel-pierce-bearl-nichols-wedding/) - Rachel Pierce married Bearl Nichols on December 4, 1945 in E l Paso, Texas.
- [Identified: The Rinker Family](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/11/identified-the-rinker-family/) - Wilsie William Rinker, Maude Ella Hamilton Rinker, Wilsie Berland Rinker and Gary Bernell Rinker. Wilsie William was born 20 July, 1916 and died 10 October 1993 and is buried in Evergreen East. Maude Ella was born 12 January, 1918 and died 29 August 1999 in El Paso and is also buried in Evergreen East. Wilsie
- [Identified: David Hernandez and Jose Hernandez Jr.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/12/09/identified-david-hernandez-and-jose-hernandez-jr/) - We have identified these two photos as brothers David Hernandez and Jose Hernandez through David's son, one of eight children, Michael Hernandez. Michael wrote: Yup, that's my dad and my uncle Jose. Jose was older that my dad and died at the "Battle Of The Bulge." He go shot as he was parachuting down and
- [Password Index](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/03/03/password-index/) - The El Paso County Historical Society has been publishing Password, a quarterly publication, since 1956. Password contains articles about El Paso and the surrounding area. Below is an index to those articles. -A- -B- -C- -D- -E- -F- -G- -H- -I- -J- -K- -L- -M- -N- -O- -P- -Q- -R- -S- -T- -U- -V- -W-
- [Drury Bird: El Paso's defender of animals](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/11/28/drury-bird-el-pasos-defender-of-animals/) - Drury Bird was born in Clarksville, Texas and grew up in El Paso, she was a foster child, being the adopted daughter of the Cass Family. She was adopted by the Cass family after the death of her parents in a car accident. Bird was close to her adopted sister, Marie Cass and the two lived together at 2811
- [Alice Holder:   El Paso Pioneer Business Woman](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/11/25/alice-holder/) - Alice Holder was named Realtor of the Year in 1973 by the El Paso Realtor Board. Holder got in the real estate business after the death of her husband. Holder worked in a prominent El Paso real estate firm then opened her own reality firm in 1964. Holder first office was at the Executive Center
- [J.J. Smith: Lower Valley Farmer and Politican](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/11/03/j-j-smith-lower-valley-farmer-and-politican/) - J.J. Smith came to El Paso with his family to from Illinois. Smith settled in Ysleta in the early 1900s where he founded the Ysleta Pear Packing Plant. He had two pear orchards on North Loop near Roseway in Ysleta. He also set up a residence for himself, his mother, sister and her husband, George Huffman,
- [Curator's Corner: Early Presidents of the EPCHS](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/11/20/curator-corner-early-president-of-the-ephs-society/) - Doing research on an exhibit for the Society on the past presidents of the El Paso Historical Historical Society, I found a newspaper article that talks about the early presidents of the society. It was published on April 23,1964 in the El Paso Herald-Post. The Society has the original photo that was used in the article.
- [Password II, 1957](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/10/23/8543/) - Password Volume II, Numbers 1-4 from 1957 Volume II, No. 1, Spring 1957 Brazito-The Only Battle in the Southwest Between American and Foreign Troops (part one of two) by George Ruhlen Pacho Villa's Gold by Haldeen Braddy Record of a Land Survey in the Jurisdiction of Chihuahua by Luis Perez O Book Reviews Priestley and Hawkes,
- [Password I, 1956](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/10/23/password-i-1956/) - Password Volume I, Numbers 1-4 from 1956 Volume I, No. 1, Spring 1956 The Salt War of San Elizario by Albion Smith Letters From Mexico by R.K. McMaster Map of Texas, 1853 by Emilie Patton de Luca Book Reviews Duncan, The Big Bend Country, by Rex W. Strickland Reeder, The MacKenzie Raid, by Eugene O. Porter Braddy,
- [Ester Varela: El Paso's First Women Justice of the Peace.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/11/22/ester-varela-el-paso-first-women-justice-of-the-peace/) - In 1940 Ester Welch Varela was elected the first woman Justice of the Peace in El Paso County, defeating the long-time incumbent, T.H. Apodaca. Varela was reelected in 1942 and retired in 1944. Varela was born in Oklahoma. Joseph Longo EPHS Curator CURATOR@ELPASOHISTORY.COM.
- [El Paso jeweler: Angelo N. Lombardi](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/05/23/el-paso-jeweler-angelo-n-lombardi/) - Thanks to Patrick Lombardi for the recent donation of photos, articles and documents related to his grandfather Angelo N. Lombardi. Angelo Lombardi, pioneer El Paso jeweler, came to El Paso from New York City in 1911, and became manager of the Eddy Foster Manufacturing Co., the largest jewelry business in the Southwest. Until World War
- [Curator Corner: Dedication of J.M. Hanks High School](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/11/14/curator-corner-dedication-of-j-m-hanks-high-school/) - While I was archiving some material into our Pass Perfect Archive Database, I found the Dedication and Open House program for J.M. Hanks High School on 2001 Lee Trevino Dr. The high school was established in 1978 and it started off as a junior high school. The first graduating class was in 1982. The actual building
- [Edna  Scotten Ferris](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/10/28/edna-scotten-ferris/) - Edna Elaine Scotten was born on March 30, 1884 in El Paso, in a house on 1019 N. Campbell. She was the first child of Frank "Union" Scotten and Mary Collins. Her grandfather, Gerome Collins, founded a float transfer hack and drayage firm in El Paso. Frank was involved in railroad and mining contraction and
- [Support & Membership](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/10/frontpage-support/) - Excerpt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
- [Ruth Munro Augur and Other Women UTEP Pioneers](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/10/20/ruth-munro-augur/) - Ruth Munro Augur was born in Austin, Texas in 1886. She studied art in New York, trained under two well-known artist, Robert Henri and William Chase. Augur studied at Otis Art Institute and California School of Fine Arts. In 1911 she worked as a sports and society page editor for the El Paso Herald and
- [Photos: Otis Aultman Scrapbook](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/04/15/photos-otis-aultman-scrapbook/) - Among the many treasures at the Historical Society is a scrapbook by photographer Otis Aultman. Aultman came to El Paso where he first worked for Scott Photo Company, was later in partnership with Robert Dorman, and eventually owned his own studio. By 1911 El Paso was a gathering place for many of the main personalities of the Mexican Revolutionqv-Francisco Madero, Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Pascual Orozcoqqvand after the shooting began, many American newsmen also flocked to El Paso to cover the event. Aultman was a man in the right place at the right time. He photographed the battle of Casas Grandes, the first battle of Juárez in May 1911, and the Orozco rebellion in 1912. He was a favorite of Pancho Villa, who called Aultman "Banty Rooster" because he was only 5'4" tall. Aultman worked for the International News Service and Pathé News and experimented with cinematography. In 1916 he was one of the first photographers to arrive at Columbus, New Mexico, after the famous raid on that town by the Villistas.
- [Mexican Revolution](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/10/mexican-revolution/) - The following images were taken during the Mexican Revolution.
- [Photos: El Paso Hotels](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/04/01/photos-hotels-3/) - Here is a collection of photos of El Paso hotels from our archives.
- [San Elizario's 20th Annual Veterans Day Parade Nov. 5, 2016](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/10/20/san-elizarios-20th-annual-veterans-day-parade-nov-5-2016/) - The Historic town of San Elizario will be hosting its 20th Annual Veterans Day Parade and Ceremony on Saturday, November 5, 2016. The parade will start at 9:00 am at Thompson Rd and Socorro Rd, travel east on Socorro Rd., on to Main St. and Alarcon Rd., ending at Veterans Memorial Plaza in front of
- [Early women principals of the Ysleta Independent School District](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/10/13/early-women-principals-of-the-ysleta-independent-school-district/) - In 1891 Ysleta schools educated their girl and boy students separately. Kitti Gorbutt was principal of the Ysleta public Girls School in 1891. As early as 1901, Anna Hannah Ellison was serving as principal, until she left in 1904 and taught in the El Paso schools. Carrie Coleman, from Maybank, Texas, was appointed principal in 1910
- [Mattie Primrose Dillard Graves: The Rose Queen of Ysleta](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/10/11/mattie-primrose-dillard-the-flower-lady-of-ysleta/) - Mattie Primrose Dillard was born in Nogales, Arizona, a mining town. She came to El Paso working for El Paso County Tax Assessor, George Huffman. She married Milton St. John Graves who oversaw a water irrigation system for the Franklin Canal. This system stretched from El Paso to Fabens. It was purchased by the U.S. Reclamation Services.
- [Elephant Butte Damn turns 100](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/10/19/elephant-butte-damn-turns-100/) - Construction of Elephant Butte Dam was authorized by the United States Congress on February 25, 1905 and started in 1911. The 100-year-old dam is 301 feet high, 1674 feet long and used 618,785 cubic yards of concrete. Dedication ceremonies were scheduled for Oct. 14, 1916 but were postponed, “owing to the excessive rains in the
- [Mildred Vogel and Ida Ashley](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/10/08/mildred-vogel-and-ida-ashley/) - Mildred Vogel was the only woman title executive in the United States in 1929. Vogel had an office in the old Caples Building and presided over the El Paso Branch of Stewart Title and Guaranty Company. She handled hundreds of deals and owned the Vogel Hotel on West Missouri Street. Vogel also invested in various
- [The  El Paso Corral of Westerners](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/10/07/the-el-paso-corral-of-westerners/) - The El Paso chapter of the Corral of Westerners was organized in 1968 by a group of southwestern writers including C. Leland Sonnicheson, who was the first sheriff of the group. Membership was restricted to women until 1976 when Betty Ligon, who was the entertainment and art editor for the El Paso Herald-Post, became the
- [Harriett Quisenberry](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/10/03/harriett-quisenberry/) - Harriet Quisenberry was born in Colin County, Texas. Quisenberry came to El Paso with her husband, Alfred, who she had married at age sixteen and her four children. When she came to El Paso she was in bad health and was told by doctors that she would not live much longer but Harriet recovered. She
- [Timeline of Community Theater in El Paso 1919-1983](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/08/21/timeline-of-community-theater-in-el-paso-1919-1983/) - 1919: The newly formed El Paso Municipal Theater Association was putting on plays and showcasing local talent at El Paso High School. It appeared to have not lasted too long. 1921: The El Paso Women’s Club drama club was reestablished by Mrs. Warren Small and Mrs. Jerome Dale. It had a membership of 75, mostly
- [Actress Gingers Rogers visits El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/09/28/gingers-rogers-come-to-el-paso/) - Ginger Rogers, the legendary actress, came to El Paso on September 25,1942 to sell war bonds. She talked to a crowd of 3000 at the old Liberty Hall as a part a big war bond campaign during WWII. She refused to talk about movies or her career, instead, she wanted to focus on selling as many
- [El Paso Mayoral Election of 1963: Part 2](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/09/25/el-paso-mayoral-election-of-1963-part-2/) - Charles B. Moore emerged as the best candidate who could beat Judson Williams. Moore defeated Mayor Ralph Seitisinger for a second place spot in the runoff against Judson Williams who had a big lead and at one point. It almost looked like he would win without a runoff. Many were surprised about Seitsinger not making
- [El Paso Mayoral Election of 1963: Part 1](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/09/23/el-paso-mayoral-election-of-1963/) - In 1963, a record number of El Paso voters showed up to the polls, first in the general election and then in the runoff, to pick their next mayor. The race was between 7 men and one woman. Even though incumbent mayor, Ralph Seitsinger was running for a second term, the race was still considered
- [Emma Webster Fenley](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/09/22/emma-webster-fenley/) - Emma Webster was born in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania in 1876. She married a Texas Ranger and had two children but the marriage ended in divorce in 1913. Webster worked for the U.S. Customs during the Mexican revolution inspecting women to make sure that none were smuggling weapons across the border into El Paso. In 1913 Webster
- [Helen Keller's Visit to El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/09/20/helen-keller-visit-to-el-paso/) - “Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”- Helen Keller On March 10,1925, well-known author, political activist and lecturer, Helen Keller came to El Paso. She was the first deaf-blind
- [The Incorporation of Anthony, Texas](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/09/18/the-incorporation-of-anthonytexas/) - In 1952 residents of the Upper Valley community of Anthony, Texas voted to incorporate. That was the start of the town of Anthony. Anthony was also referred to as La Tuna, probably because of the construction of the La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution. One of the motivations for incorporation of Anthony was to have their
- [Ruth Byran Owens: First Woman to Serve as U.S. Ambassador Visits El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/09/12/ruth-byran-owens-first-woman-to-serve-as-an-u-s-ambassador-visits-el-paso/) - Ruth Byran Owens, daughter of reformer and presidential candidate William Jennings Byran who was also known as"The Great Commoner," came to El Paso on October 17,1935. Owens was famous in her own right. Owens was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Florida in 1928, and she was among the early women filmmakers
- [The Mooney family of Ysleta](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/09/04/the-mooney-family-of-ysleta/) - James Sylvester Mooney was born on Oct. 4, 1885, in Collinwood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. He was a graduate of West Point. He served in the U.S. Army from 1916 until his retirement in 1957. Mooney was a Calvary officer in the 2nd and seventh Cavalry during the Mexican revolution, and Adjustment General at Ft Bliss.
- [Mary Chrystyne  Bower: Horse riding school pioneer](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/09/02/mary-chrystyne-bower-horse-riding-school-pioneer/) - During the great depression Mary Chrystyne Bower was in danger of losing her ranch but then she got a call from Radford Schools for Girls asking her to teach their students how to ride a horse. Bower established the Bower Riding school. The ranch is now known as Poki Roni on North Loop and Yarbrough
- [Corita Eakins and Marie Tobias: Frist Women to Head the El Paso County Jail.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/09/08/marie-tobias-and-corita-eakins-frist-women-county-jailers/) - Maria Tarrant Tobias was born in 1880 in Ripley, TN. She was married to William M. Tobias. Mr. Tobias died and Maria raised two children by herself. She was working at the Western Transfer Co. in 1918 and was living on Rio Grande Street. In 1922 she was working as a bookkeeper for Flemming Motor
- [Jean Staudenmayer:  El Paso's Horsewoman and Saddle maker](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/08/28/jean-staudenmayer-el-pasos-horsewoman-and-saddle-maker/) - Elise Jean Staudenmayer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1909. While living on a farm in Leachville, Arkansas Jean's love for horses developed and also her skills as a horsewoman. In Leachhville, her father, Martin, was a medical doctor who ran a private practice. Jean became a nursing student but decided it was not for
- [Johanna Riordan O' Donnell: Faben's Pioneer](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/09/06/johanna-riorjon-o-donnell-fabens-pioneer/) - Johanna Riordan was born in Cork County, Ireland, but grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She came to Fabens in 1902 as the young bride of Patrick O'Donnell who worked for the railroads that played a big role in the development of Fabens. Johanna remembered being the only Anglo women in Fabens as well as
- [Lydia Nash Grueling: Lower Valley civic leader and buisnesswoman](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/08/30/lydia-nash-grueling-lower-valley-civic-leader-and-buisnesswoman/) - Lydia Nash Grueling was born on October 18,1896 in Clifton.Texas. After graduation from high school she attended the Palmer Secretarial School. Grueling married F.W. Grueling in 1920 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The couple had 2 children. They came to El Paso in 1921, living at Sunny Acres then moved to a house on Moon street
- [2016 Sunset Heights Tour of Homes](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/08/26/2016-sunset-heights-tour-of-homes/)
- [The Moon Family: Pioneers of Socorro](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/08/15/the-moon-family-pioneers-of-socorro/) - The Moon family was a prominent farming family in Socorro. William Blanchard Moon Sr. and another lower valley pioneer named Moritz Lowenstein jointly bought 100 acres in Socorro but divided their interest in 1900. When the family came to Socorro in 1906, the area had been abandoned for many years and they did not have
- [Ysleta's Old Valley Inn](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/08/13/ysletas-old-valley-inn/) - The Old Valley Inn dates back to the 1850s, it was one of the oldest buildings in El Paso. The Old Valley Inn was bought by Gaspar Giron from the Catholic church which used it as a convent for nuns. He made it an inn to accommodate passengers on the Sante Fe stagecoach route. He
- [Ysleta's Booker Villa](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/07/10/booker-villa/) - The Booker Villa home was built in 1915 by L.E. Booker, a prominent cattleman and lumberman. Booker's daughter, Blanche, oversaw the designing and construction of the building. Ms. Booker took courses in architectural drawing and went into interior decorating. Blanche, who was a frequent traveler, was described as eccentric but was a good and fun hostess and she hosted a
- [August Events-El Paso County Historical Society](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/08/12/august-events-el-paso-county-historical-society/) - After a short summer break when it came to events here at the Burges House, we’re ready to roll out a new line up of programs that are sure to entertain and enlighten you. First, on August 20, Joseph Longo will be presenting on the history of community theater in El Paso. This lecture will
- [Lone Star Locals -- Vol. XII - No. 22, Jan. 17, 1885](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/08/11/lone-star-locals-vol-xii-no-22-jan-17-1885/) - Lone Star brevities from Saturday, January 17, 1885.
- [Socorro pioneer: Myrtle Render Cooper](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/08/09/socorros-school-pioneermyrtle-render-cooper/) - Myrtle Render Cooper was the first woman superintendent of the Socorro school district in 1961 before she served as principal of the old Socorro grade school for 20 years. Cooper was born in Oklahoma, her father operated the old Ysleta Cotton Gin. Cooper came to El Paso in 1927, teaching at the Ysleta Grade School,
- [Postcards: Regional Snapshots](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/08/04/postcards-a-regional-snapshot/) - They don't make postcards like they used to. Often, today's postcard images, though masterfully shot, lack the breathtaking allure and soul of those the everyman would send in the early twentieth century. On the contrary, those that were sent over a hundred years ago contained masterful drawings, bold colors, and a pleasant texture. The same is true of those capturing our City at the Pass. Many times, the postcards that were sent were artist renditions of snapshots that were taken of the city, or views the artist wished to express. Likewise, many postcards captured Downtown and the Franklins, neighborhoods and buildings, not as they looked exactly but rather how the artist or photographer wanted them to be viewed. Postcards are snapshots of the heart of a city. But they are also projections of how one wishes a city to appear and exist. El Paso's postcards tell a story of a bustling city, but also one contending with progress and growth. They tell the story of what the expected or desired path of El Paso was. Oftentimes, the images appear to come from a children's storybook. This is not to mention the history that exists on the backs of many postcards, writings that underscore the lives of countless people from around the world. At the Society we have a collection of over 200 postcards, many of them sent in the early the 20th century. The 30 in this gallery capture various areas in El Paso from Downtown and Montana Street to Segundo Barrio and Highway 80. Even though this gallery only contains images from El Paso, a number of postcards in the Society's archives highlight the beauties and vibrancy of Ciudad Juarez.
- [Hotel Paso del Norte and the Camino Real: El Paso's Premier Hotel](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/07/28/hotel-paso-del-norte-and-the-camino-real-el-pasos-premiere-hotel/) - In July 2016, a city council item was approved to begin creating incentives to renovate the Camino Real Hotel in Downtown El Paso. Using a design by Trost & Trost, the original 10-story edifice was built by Zachary T. White in 1912. The 17-story tower, which is a staple of El Paso's Downtown skyline, was erected in 1985. Take a look at some of the photographs we have in our collection of this iconic El Paso hotel.
- [Ysleta school History: 1958-1962](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/07/23/ysleta-school-history-1958-1962/) - In 1958 Scotsdale Elementary was built with Allen Reeves as the first principal. The school was named after the residential area and was built to serve the Scotsdale and Eastwood subdivisions developed in the 1950s. Reeves served as principal until his retirement in 1986 and was succeeded by Billie Kay Harvey. In 1958 South Loop
- [El Conquistador Spring 2016](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/05/26/el-conquistador-spring-2016/) - Click on the image to read the Spring 2016 edition of El Conquistador.
- [Photos: Rescue Mission of El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/07/01/7300/) - As construction begins on the new facility for the Rescue Mission of El Paso, take a look at photos of its previous headquarters, located at 604 San Francisco, where it was housed for nearly thirty years.
- [Deadline Extended: Submit Your Hall of Honor Nominations by July 20!](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/06/29/deadline-extended-submit-your-hall-of-honor-nominations-by-july-20/) - We are currently accepting nominations for 2016 Hall of Honor inductees. Nominations are due by July 20 and our annual banquet will be on November 6, 2016, beginning at 6pm at the Women's Club. If you would like to nominate someone for this honor please fill out and return the nomination form: Hall of Honor
- [Curator's Corner: Promotional items](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/06/23/curators-corner-3/) - Who can resist the allure of a free T-shirt? From shoehorns to hacky sacks, icepicks to mouse pads, promotional items are such a ubiquitous part of our consumer society that they are often overlooked. Whether they are the last surviving remnants of a short-lived business venture, mementoes from an iconic local organization, or collectibles from
- [Betty Luther: The Woman Behind "Ann Carroll"](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/06/20/betty-luther-el-pasos-ann-carroll/) - Elizabeth "Betty" Luther was born in Bell Buckle, Bedford County, Tennessee, one of three children. She was daughter of Frank Streed Luther, a descendant of American Revolution hero James the "Regulator" Emerson, and Irene Whitaker a descendant of Matt Martin , another hero of the American Revolution. After her father's death, Betty and her family moved to
- [Event June, 25: Find Your Legacy: Genealogy Workshop](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/06/17/find-your-legacy-genealogy-workshop/) - History isn't just about those people who we read about in books or watch in documentaries. Our individal and family stories forge a rich tapestry of our local, regional, national, and even international history. Unfortunately, many of us don't know our backgrounds, and many of us don't even know where to begin searching for answers.
- [Event June 18, 2016: Death on the Calle del Diablo--The killing of "El Pablote" and the Birth of the Narcocorrido](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/06/13/event-june-18-2016-death-on-the-calle-del-diablo-the-killing-of-el-pablote-and-the-birth-of-the-narcocorrido/) - Join us this Saturday, June 18, 2016, at 10AM for Bob Chessey's presentation on Juarez drug kingpin Pablo Gonzalez. Pablo "El Pablote" Gonzalez was one of the first "drug lords" of Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico. "El Pablote" practiced his craft from 1924-1930. In 1930 he was killed in a gunfight inside the red light district of Juarez.
- [Ysleta school history series: San Jose, Texico and old Ysleta grammar Schools](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/05/17/ysleta-school-history-series-san-josetexaco-and-old-ysleta-grammar-schools/) - In September of 1871, a public school was organized on Martin Ranch 3 miles from Ysleta with E.N. Ronquillo as the teacher. Martin Ranch was owned by Alexander Martin who owned a lot of property in San Jose. Martin donated land for Catholic Church in 1892. Classes were conducted in homes until a school building
- [Ysleta School History Series: Old Stone Courthouse](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/05/16/ysleta-school-history-series-old-stone-courthouse/) - The Old Stone Courthouse was built in 1882 when Ysleta was the county seat. It didn't act as the courthouse for very long because Ysleta lost the county seat election of 1883 to El Paso. The Ysleta school district moved into the old courthouse in 1884. In 1915, after a successful bond election, construction started
- [1976: Developer of pinto bean dies in El Paso](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/05/13/1976-developer-of-pinto-bean-dies-in-el-paso/) - August 3, 1976, El Paso Times Manrique R. Gonzalez, pioneer agricultural engineer in the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico who gained fame as a developer of the pinto bean, died Monday at Providence Hospital of an illness. Mr. Gonzalez, 96, gained prominence in this country just after World war I when, as a county agricultural agent
- [Event-Anita Blair: El Paso Legend, May 21](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/05/05/upcoming-event-anita-blair-el-paso-legend/) - Coming up this month we will be hosting a very interesting talk and exhibit by local historian Joseph Longo about a force of nature in El Paso: Anita Blair. Anita was the first El Paso woman elected to the Texas Legislature and the first blind woman to be elected to office in the United States. Though
- [El Paso 1880-1900](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/05/10/el-paso-street-scenes-1880-1900/) - Early El Paso street scenes, 1880-1890.
- [Curator's Corner](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/05/04/curators-corner-2/) - One of the items accessioned into the archival collections last month was this special El Paso Times newspaper supplement from February 1968 celebrating the International Rodeo & Southwestern Livestock Show. Its pages are chock-full of articles & advertisements pertaining to the rodeo & all of its accompanying events. One of the main attractions was
- [Featured Gallery: Sun Carnival](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/10/sun-carnival/) - The Sun Carnival is an annual event, here are some early images of Sun Carnival parades and the first program cover.
- [Photos: El Paso Aviation](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/04/22/photos-el-paso-aviation/) - A collection of El Paso aviation photos.
- [El Paso's Own Mona the Elephant](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/04/15/mona-the-elephant/) - Mona was the first Asian elephant to be bought to the El Paso Zoo in November 1956. Mona was born in the wild in 1954. When she first came to the zoo she weighed 7oo pounds. During the 1950s, the El Paso Zoo collection of animal began to increase and the zoo begin to develop.
- [Dead Reckoning: Where Were El Paso’s Earliest Cemeteries?](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/04/18/dead-reckoning-where-were-el-pasos-earliest-cemeteries/) - By Mark Cioc-Ortega Concordia Cemetery opened in 1884, Evergreen in 1893. The Smelter Cemetery was supposedly established in 1882, but was not used much before the 1890s. So, where did El Pasoans bury their dead before that? The answer, it seems, is “just about anywhere they wanted to.” Back yards, empty lots, hillsides. The population
- [Alligators  at  San Jacinto Plaza](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/04/14/alligators-at-san-jacinto/) - With San Jacinto Park opening on April 16, the alligator will still be a part of the identity of our Placita. This is an undated photo of an alligator at the San Jacinto Alligator Pond. If you find this interesting and want to see more of theses photos, please call the El Paso County Historical
- [Photos: San Jacinto Plaza](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/02/san-jacinto-plaza/) - As El Paso waits patiently for the completion of construction on San Jacinto Plaza, known to generations of El Pasoans as “La Plaza de los Lagartos,” or Alligator Park, here is a collection of photos of the Plaza from our archives.
- [Event: History of Agriculture in El Paso, April 23](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/04/15/event-gardening-qa/) - On April 23, 2016, 10am, at the Burges House, 603 W. Yandell, master gardener Bill Hooten will give a talk on early El Paso agriculture and what can be grown in El Paso followed by a Q & A about keeping your garden looking its best this spring and summer. Light refreshments will be served, and
- [Photos: El Paso High](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/02/el-paso-high-school/) - Here is a sampling of photos from our archives of El Paso High School which is celebrating it's centennial this year.
- [Research books available at the Burges House Library](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/04/11/burges-house-library/) - Here is a link to a list of some of the books available for research, or just browsing, at the Burges House, 603 W. Yandell. Stop by and see us Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or give us a call at 533-3603. Burges House book list
- [To Live and Drink in the Borderland, Part II](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/04/01/to-live-and-drink-in-the-borderland-part-ii/) - As many of you know, we hosted an event titled "To Live and Drink in the Borderland" back in September highlighting El Paso's rich and varied history as it pertains to the brewing of beer. Because of the success of that event, we held Part II on St. Patrick's Day. It was also a hit! Featured are some photos of the event.
- [Curator's Corner](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/03/30/curators-corner/) - The El Paso County Historical Society recently acquired a collection of New Mexico high school & university yearbooks. Included in the acquisition were some high school yearbooks of Mesilla resident, Verna Lowry, who was a member of the Las Cruces Union High School Class of 1942. Hidden gems are often to be found amongst archive materials,
- [El Paso Pioneer: Samuel Schutz](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/03/29/pioneer-samuel-schutz/) - The Pioneer Association of El Paso was formed in 1904 by men who had come to the city before 1900. Among its ranks were builders, merchants, traders, lawyers, farmers, miners and others who came west to make a new life or find their fortune. Some of the records of the Pioneer Association are housed at
- [Event: To Live and Drink in the Borderland](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/03/13/event-to-live-and-drink-in-the-borderland/) - Celebrate St. Patrick's day El Paso style with some beers, hot dogs, and a presentation on the history of beer in El Paso! Join us at 6:30 p.m., March 17th, at the historic Burges House, 603 W. Yandell. The event is free, donations are welcomed. BYOB. Food will be served!
- [El Paso Pioneer: Dr. Edward Alexander](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/29/el-paso-pioneer-dr-edward-alexander/) - The Pioneer Association of El Paso was formed in 1904 by men who had come to the city before 1900. Among its ranks were builders, merchants, traders, lawyers, farmers, miners and others who came west to make a new life or find their fortune. Some of the records of the Pioneer Association are housed at
- [El Paso History Day](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/29/el-paso-history-day/) - Last week, UTEP hosted its 19th annual El Paso History Day, one of dozens of events held across the country that showcase middle and high school students' historical research projects. This year a record number of participants entered in El Paso. El Paso County Historical Society President, Jim Fashing, and Corresponding Secretary, Robert Diaz, presented
- [Featured Gallery: El Paso Schools](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/10/el-paso-schools/) - This gallery contains images of early El Paso Schools.
- [Only in El Paso: Scenic Drive](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/02/27/only-in-el-paso-scenic-drive/) - Several months ago, local filmmaker Jesus Nunez interviewed the El Paso County Historical Society's very own Robert Diaz about the wonder and importance of Scenic Drive. Watch here!
- [Holiday Open House](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2016/01/19/holiday-open-house/) - Our annual Holiday Open House, held the first Thursday in December, featured the famous Burges Family Eggnog. A great time was had by all, hope you join us in 2016.
- [Hall of Honor Annual Banquet](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/10/el-paso-county-historical-society-hall-of-honor-annual-banquet/) - November 2, Sunday at 6:00 pm: El Paso County Historical Society Hall of Honor annual Banquet At the El Paso Club downtown – Dinner will be served at 7:00 pm
- [Oct. 26: 4th Quarterly Meeting recap](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/10/sunday-oct-26-4th-quarterly-meeting-of-the-el-paso-county-historical-society/) - October 26 Sunday at 5:00 pm: 4 th Quarterly meeting of the El Paso County Historical Society Keynote Speaker - Jason Bruemmer speaking on “How the Horses Shaped Civilization” At the Sunland Park Race Track (during Tom Lea Month) – in the Riley Room Admission is $20.00 dollars per person including dinner – Call 573-0048
- [El Paso Landmarks](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/10/el-paso-landmarks/) - The following images show various landmarks in Downtown El Paso. Some have been torn down.
- [October Quarterly Meeting](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/10/october-quarterly-meeting/) - New officers were elected for the coming year during our meeting at the Burges House, then at 5 p.m. at Sunland Park Race Track. Jason Bruemmer spoke on "The History of the Horse in the Light of 'The Hands of Cantu'."
- [Know Your Ground](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/10/know-your-ground/) - It is difficult to say from where the sentiment originates, but I have always felt as though El Paso, TX is regarded as somewhat unimportant and uninteresting by the rest of the United States. Such disregard seems to be recapitulated by El Paso’s citizens—or at the very least, by its educational system. Through the course
- [Little History](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/10/little-history/) - A few weeks ago, a gentleman came to the Historical Society to conduct research on his grandfather, father, and uncle. He had been researching his family for years and plans to write a book about them. On Friday, another gentleman came to the Society seeking photos for a book he is writing on the history
- [The Mysterious Case of Francis F.](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/02/the-mysterious-case-of-francis-f/) - http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/tex/id/2051/rec/8) Last week, we got a call from Southern Methodist University (SMU) about verifying whether some photos they had in their collections credited to one Francis F. Parker were also attributable to a Francis W. Parker listed on our website. The search for the answer to this question demonstrates how history is not only investigative,
- [Error 404: When the information you are looking for cannot be found](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/10/error-404-when-the-information-you-are-looking-for-cannot-be-found/) - My intention with my previous post was to avoid legitimating my exploration of El Paso history (for myself and for others) because the importance of local history should be obvious. Luckily, though, I continue to find my quest for El Pasohistory validated. Case in point: today, while volunteering at the El Paso County Historical Society’s
- [Welcome to our Blog!/Some Insights Into What History is More stories](https://www.elpasohistory.com/2015/11/01/welcome-to-our-blogsome-insights-into-what-history-is/) - Welcome! Welcome to the El Paso County Historical Society Blog! We will be updating it every-so- often with all things Borderlands history. Whether it is an interesting find, an entry about an event that took place in the Borderland, or general insights into history, you’ll find it here. Please make sure to check with us,
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