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Post by Rich Curilla on Oct 3, 2014 14:27:46 GMT -5
Just to be sure I wasn't feeding you a line, I street-viewed the whole stretch along Commerce St. on Google Earth. All trees along it are landscaping trees and only a decade or two old. None is a cottonwood tree. Particularly those at the street edge of the Denny's parking lot. Actually, I believe they were all gone by the 1850's.
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Post by Thatcher Bennett on Oct 6, 2014 18:26:47 GMT -5
Just to be sure I wasn't feeding you a line, I street-viewed the whole stretch along Commerce St. on Google Earth. All trees along it are landscaping trees and only a decade or two old. None is a cottonwood tree. Particularly those at the street edge of the Denny's parking lot. Actually, I believe they were all gone by the 1850's. Thank you for setting me straight! Seems odd though if they lasted into the 1850s there should be some notice of them disappearing somewhere possibly in the newspaper archives (not sure if the Express or the Light were around by then) unless nobody quite understood/cared about their significance
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Post by Rich Curilla on Oct 7, 2014 0:19:15 GMT -5
Different times. Different focus. Not many cared or even paid attention to stuff like that then, I'm afraid. Walls at the Alamo disappeared because stone was needed for building. The Veramendi Palace was torn down in 1910 without a tear or regret in order to widen Soledad Street. That, at least, made the papers.
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Post by bradponder on Oct 26, 2014 16:33:57 GMT -5
Been reading through the threads on the site and surprised nobody's asked the question of wethe or not there's possibly one (or more) of the cottonwoods from the Alameda still standing. I know from my many trips downtown (I actually usually park at the Denny's on Commerce) and there are quite a few trees down that way. Down on the river you have the Cypress from which the Mexican sniper shot Ben Milam during the Siege of Bexar, so is it possible? Rich is correct. There are no remnants of the old cottonwood trees along E. Commerce St. today. In a March 26, 1911 San Antonio Express article titled "Builder's Spades Turn Up Soil Baked By Alamo Pyres", feature writer Charles Merritt Barnes said "there are but two of the fifty or more cottonwood trees left that grew originally on the Alameda." Sadly, they too passed into history about 100 years ago. There is a related thread titled “The Alameda” on this forum. Follow this link: alamostudies.proboards.com/thread/1674/alameda
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Post by TRK on Dec 9, 2018 6:32:01 GMT -5
Scanned Document San Antonio Express March 26, 1911 North and south pictures of the Alamada Sites {reference only} There's a clearer and zoomable reproduction of this page at this link: texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth431837/m1/26/?q=alamedaI did a screen capture of the "Sketch of the Recognition of Travis' Body" and then tweaked the tones in it, and it appears to be a reproduction of a painting of a mounted man wearing a sombrero pointing off to the right while another man wearing a sombrero and standing on the ground is holding up a body...with maybe a couple of more figures standing behind him. No idea where the original might be.
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Post by stuart on Dec 9, 2018 8:49:00 GMT -5
Absolutely fascinating article
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Post by alamoglenn on Dec 9, 2018 17:59:12 GMT -5
Tom,
Very interesting article on the Alameda and funeral pyres. Thanks for the link. Glenn
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