Asadores Ranch

Salvador Cavazos Gallegos and his wife, Maria San Juana Anzaldua, founded Asadores Ranch in 1881 on the Mexican La Blanca land grant to Lino Cavazos. The Cavazos family raised cattle and horses and grew corn, beans and other crops along the Rio Grande. Cavazos family members and ranch workers formed a small but important community. The land remained in the Cavazos family until 1902 when it was sold to John Closner. The family retained a one acre burial site where Salvador Cavazos Gallegos and Maria San Juana Anzaldua were buried in 1886 and 1887. The cemetery continued to be used by the family into the 1940s. Asadores Ranch is an example of the many eighteenth and nineteenth century Hidalgo County ranch settlements.

Asadores Ranch is a historical marker in Donna, Hidalgo County, dedicated in 2010. It is one of 138 historical markers documented in Hidalgo County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 236 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 26.0774, -98.0669 near Donna. The nearest cataloged historic site is Handy Ranch (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Run, Asadores Ranch Cemetery, and Donna Public Schools.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5507016291. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.