Tag: History
Roadside landmark is gone
The iconic Sands Motel and Restaurant sign located at 805 East Broadway was demolished last Tuesday. The business property recently sold and has been...
Kent 79855 closes
Alice Escobedo retires with the Kent, Texas USPS.
Photo by: Lacrecia Grubb
By Lisa Morton
81 year young Alice Escobedo has retired from the United States...
Nature Notes: Tracing the Salt Road, Where West Texas Geology, History...
By Andrew Stuart
Beneath the soaring western escarpment of the Guadalupe Mountains, geologic and chemical forces combine to create a resource humans have sought since...
Today in History: Nov. 22
By The Associated Press
Today in History
Today is Thursday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2018. There are 39 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight...
The death of Maggie Graham
By Daniel Aranda
How happy Maggie Little must have been when she exchanged wedding vows with Harry Graham on September 16, 1879. She anticipated...
The smell of Dachau
By Hardie Matthews
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Editors note: Hardie Matthews is a frequent contributor to The Van Horn Advocate and has a special...
Porvenir massacre on Texas border haunts descendants 100 years later
(Running in The Advocate as a two-part series)
Reprinted with permission from The El Paso Times
By Madlin Mekelburg, El Paso Times
AUSTIN — It has been 100 years since 15 unarmed...