Gators Are Old-Timers
August 20, 2026
San Jacinto Plaza in El Paso became home to some of the city’s oldest and best-known attractions: a group of alligators first brought there in 1890 as a joke from Louisiana. The reptiles were sent to local mining engineer A. Munsenberger, who, with Charles Longuemare…
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