Ramireño

The porción was granted in 1784 to José Luis Ramírez, one of six tracts distributed by order of Governor Diego de Lasaga. José Luis Ramírez and his wife Basilia Martínez moved to the site and estabished a settlement in 1810. Their son Manuel Ramírez Martínez (1799-1882) was captured near the site by Comanches in 1819; he was returned circa 1822 after ransom was paid in Louisiana. There was a stone house at the site.W. Eugene George, Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands (2008): 49, 50-51; Lott and Martinez, Kingdom of Zapata.

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