El Paso County Courthouse

# 841 EL PASO COUNTY'S FIRST COURT HOUSE San Elizario, Texas Once a Spanish stronghold, it was later the seat of and the most important town in El Paso County. A few squat adobes and the Capilla de San Elizario, the graceful simple chapel of the an- cient Spanish fortress, are grouped about the old plaza. Established following the Pueblo revolt in New Mexico (1860) by Indian refugees and Spanish soldiers, it was a presidio town with a chapel, rather than a mission settlement. Color Photo By MESTON'S TRAVELS Schoef POST CARDS NEW MEXICO Land of Broke Published by F. J. Schaaf, Alamogordo, New Mexico 32287