Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas was the presidio there where present day Menard is located. I assisted with two Texas Tech archaeological field schools there. That where young son did his graduate thesis.
That presidio had its beginnings on the San Gabriel river over NW of Rockdale Tx. When that river was known as the San Xavier. There were three missions there it protected. san Xavier, Candeleria, and San Ildephonso. They were all closed and the presidio and one of the missions were moved to the San Saba
If you want a good read on all these missions and presidios I suggest Herbert Eugene Bolton’s monumental work from 1914, Texas In The Middle Eighteenth Century.
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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