March 21, 2012

Mission San Jose - San Antonio, TX #2

Mission San Jose and its surrounding fields sustained a thriving community of Indians and Spaniards.  Within the walls Indians lived, worshipped, and attended classes.  They learned to blacksmith, to weave European looms, to cut stone, and to make shoes and cotton clothes.  Outside the walls, the mission Indians tended fields, orchards, and livestocks (c. 1782).


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