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Biggs Field/Biggs Army Airfield (1916–47) On 15 June 1919, following an attack by Pancho Villa 's forces on Ciudad Juárez, United States Army Air Service personnel equipped with Dayton-Wright DH-4 aircraft were sent to Fort Bliss to begin patrols of the U.S.-Mexico border, initiating the United States Army Border Air Patrol.
Bel Air High School (El Paso, Texas) / 31.747254; -106.345953. Bel Air High School is a high school in the city of El Paso, Texas, United States. The school was established in 1957. It houses Bel Air Middle School, with transfers from Eastwood as well as other local middle schools.
El Paso High School. / 31.77306°N 106.49111°W / 31.77306; -106.49111. El Paso High School is the oldest operating high school in El Paso, Texas, and is part of the El Paso Independent School District. It serves the west-central section of the city, roughly south and west of the Franklin Mountains and north of Interstate 10 to the ...
September 24, 1980. The Alhambra Theatre, also known as the Palace Theatre, is a building in El Paso, Texas. Opened on August 1, 1914, the building was designed by architect Henry C. Trost in the Spanish Colonial Revival style with a Moorish theme, preceding spread of the Moorish Revival style of the 1920s. The building cost $150,000.
Ysleta is a community in El Paso, Texas, United States. Ysleta was settled between October 9 and October 12, 1680, when Spanish conquistadors, Franciscan clerics and Tigua Indians took refuge along the southern bank of the Rio Grande. These people were fleeing the Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico. Ysleta is the oldest European settlement in the area ...
El Paso County: 141: El Paso: 1848: Santa Fe County: Neighboring Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, formerly called El Paso del Norte as it served as the pass north from central Mexico to the settlements of New Mexico: 869,880: 1,013 sq mi (2,624 km 2) Erath County: 143: Stephenville: 1856: Bosque County and Coryell County
The El Diario de El Paso is the primary Spanish-language newspaper for the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. The paper was founded on May 16, 2005, by El Diario de Juárez . It originally started out as a Mexican newspaper circulated throughout Ciudad Juárez under the name Diario de Juárez .
Lucy G. Acosta (1926-2008), activist and political appointee. [1] Suzie Azar (born 1946), aviator, politician and first woman to serve as mayor of El Paso. [2] Kathleen Cardone (born 1953), United States District Judge. [3] Alicia R. Chacón (born 1938), first woman elected to office in the city of El Paso.