Has the alamo always been in texas?

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US_DR_JD

This question has been answered many ways, and most are correct, except the craigslist, and possibly mobile home response.

The Mission San Antonio de Valero was built by the Spanish in a territory of Spain, then part of Mexico, but the region was called Tejas, after the Tejas indians. The mission was secularized, and the Mexican Army used it as a fort, after separating from Spain. The Mexican soldiers named the mission The Alamo because the cottonwood trees reminded them of the trees in their home. The name means cottonwood. The Texian Revolutionaries took the mission from the Mexican army in the Battle of Bejar. When the Texian Army was preparing for battle with Mexico, Sam Houston sent Bowie to evacuate the mission, but Smith had sent Travis to hold the Alamo. In Feb 1836 the Mexican Army of close to 5000 men surrounded less than 150 defenders in the Alamo. The seige lasted 13 days. All the defenders who remained in the Alamo were killed. Soon afterward Texas won it's independence from Mexico. It became the Republic of Texas, and later the State of Texas, as part of the US. Texas seceeded from the US and joined the Confederate States of America, and then was reunited with the US following the Civil War. The mission San Antonio de Valero moved from it's original site further north to it's current position after being destroyed by a hurricane, but the Alamo building has always been where it currently sits. However, it used to sit in the open and was not surrounded by hotels and businesses.

So it has always been in Texas or Tejas.

DA METALZ

IT USED TO BE MEXICO.

it still is.

chuckimagine

No originally it was a part of Mexico until we purchased the territory.

PAM

THe Alamo has always been the Texas territory. Texas was part of Mexico then became a country then was maate in 1845 I believe. So yes it technically ahs always been in Texas.

StudMonkey

No

On weekends, it is transported to a parallel reality for cleaning, and replaced with a lookalike site called the Armadillamo.

Terry D

It was once part of the Spanish Empire.

satacelda

i think it was in canda for a while in the 60s

***

Yes......it's part of Texas history.

Tina T

Yes: http://www.thealamo.org/history.html

kualua makani

Actually the Alamo is a large Adobe mobile home, and it is moved from place to place depending on where the need for a mission, and historic site is required.

San Antonio has just leased the Alamo.

kim46@att.net

No ,it was once in Mexico

mmuscs

Actually it started out belonging to Spain. San Antonio was settled by people from the Canary Islands. The King of Spain was afraid the French were moving into Texas so in 1731 he gave land grants to 16 families that were Spanish citizens from the Canary Islands.

chipjet

I don't think it was ever in any other states

Shakey B

No, someone lived in it in Russia, but they wanted to sell it. They put it on craigslist, and a lucky buyer in Texas got a good deal. Shipping was very expensive, but when it arrived the new owners knew that the money was well spent. It was one of the greatest alamos they had ever seen, and they lived happily ever after. Until that war thing happened.

Danielle P

yes it has

brimir7

Alamo actually means Cottonwood, which is type of tree.

To answer your question, THE Alamo was in Mexico, then the Republic of Texas, and then the state of Texas. It was the same location but technically these are different countries. You can find a Alamo anywhere cottonwood trees grow.

Don't mean to be wordy but I'm trying to cover all the bases of what you mean by "has it always been in Texas." The Alamo has always been the the in same physical location. Literally speaking, it's not always been in Texas.

Ashley D

No, it used to be in South Carolina.

LB The Definition of Lovley

Yes, yes it has. If you need further info like that try Wikipedia.

just me

HUH?!?!?!.....Lmao.......of course silly!

Fozzy

No it was moved from Arizona when they purchased the London Bridge.

Fatty

uhhhh.... yeah.

mamarivers

ummm...yeah....

kja63

Yes dear, the church hasn't moved. Perhaps your question refers to the fact that Texas wasn't always Texas?

Anne Marie

Hi Ariel!

Sorry about all the goofy answers you've been getting.

According to the noted Texas historian Theodore R. Fehrenbach, the first garrison troops at San Antonio were sent from Parras, a town 120 miles west of Monterrey in Coahuila state.

The name of their post in Parras was called the Alamo de Parras. Billeted inside the mission grounds in San Antonio, they took to calling their new home the "Alamo," and the name stuck.

Naturally, the building itself has never moved (differing in this respect from, say, London Bridge), but you are quite right that the name was brought with them from Mexico by the original Spanish soldiers who came to San Antonio in the 1790s.

Demon Lord Sesshomaru *AY*

Yes, unfortunately.
Since San Anto is so PC, I keep hoping that they will give it back to the Mexicans.
The ones in Mexico, I mean.

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