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A Bird's Eye View Map and Info

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A Bird's Eye View Map and Info

August 20, 2026

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Augustus Koch’s bird’s-eye map of El Paso is most convincingly dated to 1886, likely no later than October. The dating rests on a combination of features shown and omitted: the presence of the Customs House at San Antonio and Utah, completed by S. C. Slade in October 1885, rules out an earlier…

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