c. 1810

The site was settled by Luis Ramirez and Basilia Martinez in 1810 on Revilla porción 5. Their 20-year old son, Manuel, was captured near the site by Comanches in 1819. He was ransomed in Louisiana circa 1822.

Source: W. Eugene George, Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands (Texas A&M University Press, 2008), 49, 50-51.