Soy de Duval

Women at Methodist Church gathering*, San Diego, Texas. (n.d.). Retrieved March 9, 2022, from https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/5183/rec/62 Writing about his experience in San Diego in 1891, a New York Sun reporter wrote: “at the risk of offending the fair and fashionable ladies of Gotham City, there crowded into a small barn-like theater or Teatro of the town last night more pretty women than any theater in New York ever held at one time…their hair was brushed smoothly back over their shapely heads, a la Mexicana, with here and there a Texas Lilly gleaning like a star in their tresses the señoritas had the wonderful pure Madonna-like beauty which northern eyes never see save in pictures of Santa María painted by old masters… Murillo probably used their great-great-grandmothers for his creations of the Holy Mother.  *These are not the señoritas that the reporter spoke about, but they are from that same generation.

The Berlin Bridge Company built three iron bridges in Duval County in 1890. The company erected this  bridge in the 1890s but is not one from Duval County.   In May 1890, a correspondent with the Galveston newspaper visited San Diego and was quite impressed with what he saw. The reporter described San Diego as "most decidedly Spanish or Mexican." But the residents, although coming from different places, all understood Spanish and English. So it was hard to tell whether an individual you met on the streets of San Diego was Spanish, Mexican, American, German, French, or some other nationality. He observed that he witnessed a group of "fashionably dressed and well-educated ladies" in conversation." Their first sentence was in English and the next in Spanish, "with equal fluency." ( The Galveston Daily News . (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 22, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 20, 1890.) In other happenings that year, the Duval County Commissioners Court issued a contr...