In 1718, at an Indian village at the southern edge of the
Texas Hill Country, The
Spanish established Mission San Antonio de Valero.
San Antonio became a military garrison in
1718, and was settled by the Anglos in the 1720s and 1730s under Austin's colonization program. Today's city and
county names derive from those 18th-century Spanish beginnings that predate founding of the
United States by more than half a century.
San Antonio looks nothing like the stereotypical image of Texas and rightly so too, rather it looks, feels, sounds
and test like
Mexico,
it's largely dominated by the Hispanic populations.
