Ghost town in Texas, United States
Pilares was a village located in northwest
Presidio County, Texas, United States, on the southern boundary of the
Sierra Vieja near the
Rio Grande.
[1] The river
village was 1.25 miles (2.01 km) south of the
confluence of Quinn Creek and the Rio Grande while bearing 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of
Porvenir, Texas. The uninhabited site is in the
Trans-Pecos region of
West Texas with a southern panorama of the
Chihuahuan Desert and
northern Mexico.
[2]
Presidio of Pilares
Presidio de Pilares, also known as El Principe, was established along the southern boundaries of the Rio Grande
basin in the northern
Chihuahua territory of
New Spain in 1774.
[3]
[4] The Spanish Presidio provided a
defensive wall against the
native plains inhabitants during the
Mexican Indian Wars in
Spanish Texas.
History of Rio Grande presidios
In the mid-18th century,
Charles III of Spain appointed
Marquis of Rubí and
José de Gálvez to fulfill
expeditions and observations of the
America frontier presidios in the northern regions of New Spain.
[5]
[6]
On September 10, 1772, the
Spanish Empire issued new regulations for
presidios constructed in
New Spain near the Rio Grande in the Northern Mexico territories.
[7]
[8] In 1776, the
Viceroyalty of New Spain established Spanish provinces in the
Spanish America frontier through the governance of the
Provincias Internas serving as a supplemental article to the
Bourbon Reforms. The Spanish Presidio coerced the territorial development of New Spain in the
Chihuahua territory of the
Spanish America colonies while fortifying the
Spanish missions in Texas.
[9]
See also
References
-
^ Smith, Julia Cauble.
"Pilares, TX". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.
-
^
"Pilares, Texas - Chihuahua, Mexico Aerial Map", Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin
-
^
"Missions, Presidios, and Settlements of Spanish Texas" [El Paso Missions] (PDF). Texas Beyond History. University of Texas at Austin.
-
^ Jones, Oakah L. (1991).
"Settlements and Settlers at La Junta del los Rios, 1759–1822" [The Journal of Big Bend Studies, Vol. III] (PDF). Texas Beyond History. University of Texas at Austin.
-
^ Haskell, Marion L. (January 1, 1918).
"Review Of Rubí's Inspection of the Frontier Presidios of New Spain, 1766–1768". Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California. 11 (1). Historical Society of Southern California: 33–43.
doi:
10.2307/41168757.
JSTOR
41168757 – via Internet Archive.
-
^ Priestley, Herbert Ingram (1916).
"José de Gálvez, Visitor-General of New Spain (1765–1771)". Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
OCLC
903573202 – via Internet Archive.
-
^ Chipman, Donald E.
"New Regulations For Presidios". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.
-
^ Faulk, Odie B.
"Presidios". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.
-
^
"Spanish Frontier 1715–1821" [La Junta de los Rios (The Meeting of the Rivers)]. Texas Beyond History. University of Texas at Austin.
Audiobook Bibliography
Bibliography
- Solís, Antonio de (1724).
The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. London: T. Woodward and J. Hooke.
OCLC
1046514488 – via Internet Archive.
- Solís, Antonio de (1738).
The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Vol. I. London: John Osborn.
OCLC
733087530 – via Internet Archive.
- Solís, Antonio de (1738).
The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Vol. II. London: John Osborn.
OCLC
733087530 – via Internet Archive.
- Bonnycastle, Richard Henry (1818).
Spanish America; A Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental & Insular [Account of Spanish America]. Vol. I. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
OCLC
298513594 – via Internet Archive.
- Bonnycastle, Richard Henry (1818).
Spanish America; A Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental & Insular [Account of Spanish America]. Vol. II. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
OCLC
981299968 – via Internet Archive.
- Bonnycastle, Richard Henry (1819).
Spanish America; A Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental & Insular [Account of Spanish America]. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Abraham Small Publisher.
OCLC
1157455578 – via Internet Archive.
- Bolton, Herbert Eugene (1915).
Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century: Studies in Spanish Colonial History and Administration. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
OCLC
558670456 – via Internet Archive.
External links