If there's one thing San Antonio is known for, it's the Alamo. Once a Franciscan mission, it was here that 189 Texans fought and lost their lives in 1836 during a 13-day siege by Mexican ruler ...

It turns out that the very stones used to build the Alamo came from the San Antonio Zoo ... an early 1800s Spanish military outpost known as El Álamo and then the site of the 1836 siege and ...

that’s when San Antonio, the border, and El Paso became far less important [to the Anglo Texians],” Tomlinson says. Tomlinson goes on to say that the Alamo – and San Antonio at large ...

Alamo Plaza in San Antonio is showing signs of the future of the $550 million renovation and restoration of the beloved Texas shrine. Among the new additions is the Palisade outdoor exhibit ...