A history of Del Rio,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Del Rio from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Spanish established a small settlement south of the Rio Grande in present-day Mexico, and some Spanish colonists settled on the north side of the Rio Grande as early as the 18th century.
The United States acquired the territory following the Mexican War and, after the American Civil War, Paula Losoya Taylor in 1862 was the first Anglo-American to build a hacienda in the area.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Del Rio’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewPresident McKinley's first stop o…, 1901: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Del Rio
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Del Rio, decade by decade
1990s
4 historic places in Del Rio
4 places in Del Rio are on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
Architectural styles
When they were listed
Listed 1977Val Verde County Courthouse And JailListed 1986Cassinelli Gin HouseListed 2003Del Rio Cemeteries Historic DistrictListed 2026Southern Pacific Passenger DepotThen & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as President McKinley's first stop on the Mexican border - at Del Rio, Texas (1901) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.