Marker Inscription
Founded by Franciscan missionaries among the Lipan Apache Indians in 1762. Abandoned in 1769.
Historical Marker
Site of the Mission San Lorenzo de La Santa Cruz
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About this site
Site of the Mission San Lorenzo de La Santa Cruz is a historical marker in Camp Wood, Real County, dedicated in 1936. It is one of 16 historical markers documented in Real County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 32 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 29.6770, -100.0151 near Camp Wood. The nearest cataloged historic site is SIte of Camp Wood (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Private Frank Marshall, C.S.A., Charles A. Lindbergh in Texas, and Garden of Memories Cemetery.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5385004547. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Mission San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz was founded in 1762 by Franciscan missionaries on the east bank of the Nueces River, near present Camp Wood, to minister to the Lipan Apaches and check French and Comanche threats on the northern frontier. One of the unauthorized 'El Canon' missions, it grew to more than fourteen adobe and limestone buildings around a plaza during its brief nine-year existence before being abandoned amid raids and disease by about 1771. Between 1857 and 1861 the site served as a U.S. Army post known as Camp Wood.
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