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August 20, 2026

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El Paso, Texas, emerges in the early 1880s as a rapidly developing border commercial center anchored by El Paso Street, San Antonio Street, Overland Street, and the plazas near the Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe depots. The Grand Central Hotel, operated by John Dougher and later…

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