Mining Menard’s Spanish Colonial treasure

  • DEEP ROOTS- The Presidio was founded in 1757 and operated by the Colonial Spanish Army until abandoned in 1772 by order of the Viceroy of New Spain. Photo courtesy Presidio de San Saba Facebook page.
    DEEP ROOTS- The Presidio was founded in 1757 and operated by the Colonial Spanish Army until abandoned in 1772 by order of the Viceroy of New Spain. Photo courtesy Presidio de San Saba Facebook page.

    Come experience local living history this Saturday!

    For over 260 years, since its founding in 1757, Menard’s Presidio de San Sabá, located on the banks of the beautiful San Saba River, has been the defining historical and cultural landmark of Central Texas. Here it majestically memorializes in stone the “High Water Mark” of the Spanish Empire in Texas, where over the centuries Indians, soldiers, pr…