The water flowed through farm fields to Mission San Francisco de la Espada and then back into the San Antonio River. The San Antonio Missions National Historical Park posted about the aqueduct ...

Mission San Francisco de la Espada ... north of the mission is an aqueduct, a unique, above-ground structure built with rubble masonry to carry water from the San Antonio River across a creek ...

built in 1731 as a means of carrying water from the San Antonio River to Mission Espada. Still in use today, it is the only remaining Spanish aqueduct in the United States. In 1964, the aqueduct ...

Near the Mission Espada, the original aqueduct remains. Constructed in the 1740s, it carried water from the nearby San ...

That's among the many treatments the Espada Aqueduct ... their tour of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Though it's about a quarter-mile from the closest mission, the aqueduct ...

The San Antonio River was so deep that the missionaries had to devise an irrigation system. This aqueduct, which transports river water to Mission Espada, still flows continuously and is the ...

Read full article: Nation’s oldest Spanish aqueduct located in San Antonio ... missions: Mission Concepcion, Mission San Jose, Mission San Juan Capistrano and Mission Espada.

Reason: These five 18th-century Franciscan missions—Missions San José, San Juan, Espada ... To the south at Mission San Juan, the acequia dam-and-aqueduct irrigation system is again flowing ...

You’ve likely remembered to visit the Alamo—i.e., what’s left of the once sprawling Mission San Antonio de Valero ... and Mission Espada, the Alamo’s just slightly younger, less crowded ...

Inside that smallest of San Antonio's historic mission churches is a holy object of great importance. "We're really lucky to have a relic of St. John Paul here at Mission Espada," said Rebecca ...

Dozens of old tires were collected by volunteers cleaning up the San Antonio Missions National Historic Park earlier this week. A total of 83 tires were found near the Espada Aqueduct on the city ...

Two weathered gravestones sit in a small, dusty rectangle in front of the grand Spanish church at the heart of the nation's newest World Heritage Site, the San Antonio Missions. I've been to ...