El Paso’s first woman firefighter was Karla Paige Bedell-Wingfield. She graduated from the El Paso Fire Academy in April of 1993. Wingfield was the first woman in the 100 history of the El Paso Fire Department to do so. Wingfield later went on to become a nurse practitioner, practicing in El Paso. Stephanie Hornbuckle joined Wingfield as a […]
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J.J. Smith: Lower Valley Farmer and Politican
J.J. Smith came to El Paso with his family to from Illinois. Smith settled in Ysleta in the early 1900s where he founded the Ysleta Pear Packing Plant. He had two pear orchards on North Loop near Roseway in Ysleta. He also set up a residence for himself, his mother, sister and her husband, George Huffman, […]
Early El Paso Policewomen
In 1913 , Mrs. C.A. Hooper, Mrs. L.P. Jones, and Juliet Barlow were the earliest women to serve as city police officers in El Paso. Jones was superintendent of the local charity association, Barlow was a nurse for El Paso Baby District, and Jones was a visiting nurse with the local tubercular association. Their primary duties […]
Edna Scotten Ferris
Edna Elaine Scotten was born on March 30, 1884 in El Paso, in a house on 1019 N. Campbell. She was the first child of Frank “Union” Scotten and Mary Collins. Her grandfather, Gerome Collins, founded a float transfer hack and drayage firm in El Paso. Frank was involved in railroad and mining contraction and […]
Password II, 1957
Password Volume II, Numbers 1-4 from 1957 Volume II, No. 1, Spring 1957 Brazito-The Only Battle in the Southwest Between American and Foreign Troops (part one of two) by George Ruhlen Pacho Villa’s Gold by Haldeen Braddy Record of a Land Survey in the Jurisdiction of Chihuahua by Luis Perez O Book Reviews Priestley and Hawkes, […]
Password I, 1956
Password Volume I, Numbers 1-4 from 1956 Volume I, No. 1, Spring 1956 The Salt War of San Elizario by Albion Smith Letters From Mexico by R.K. McMaster Map of Texas, 1853 by Emilie Patton de Luca Book Reviews Duncan, The Big Bend Country, by Rex W. Strickland Reeder, The MacKenzie Raid, by Eugene O. Porter Braddy, […]
Ruth Munro Augur and Other Women UTEP Pioneers
Ruth Munro Augur was born in Austin, Texas in 1886. She studied art in New York, trained under two well-known artist, Robert Henri and William Chase. Augur studied at Otis Art Institute and California School of Fine Arts. In 1911 she worked as a sports and society page editor for the El Paso Herald and […]
San Elizario’s 20th Annual Veterans Day Parade Nov. 5, 2016
The Historic town of San Elizario will be hosting its 20th Annual Veterans Day Parade and Ceremony on Saturday, November 5, 2016. The parade will start at 9:00 am at Thompson Rd and Socorro Rd, travel east on Socorro Rd., on to Main St. and Alarcon Rd., ending at Veterans Memorial Plaza in front of […]
Elephant Butte Damn turns 100
Construction of Elephant Butte Dam was authorized by the United States Congress on February 25, 1905 and started in 1911. The 100-year-old dam is 301 feet high, 1674 feet long and used 618,785 cubic yards of concrete. Dedication ceremonies were scheduled for Oct. 14, 1916 but were postponed, “owing to the excessive rains in the […]
1998 Union Plaza Development Report
Union Plaza Downtown El Paso Development Archaeological Project: Overview, Inventory and Recommendations, a report for the Sun Metro Transit Authority, City of El Paso, Texas. Dated December 9, 1998. Read the 1998 Report