San Antonio
San Antonio names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
San Antonio a city and countythe seat of Bexar co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and countythe seat of Bexar co., Tex.; on the San Pedro and San Antonio rive rivers, and on Southern Pacific, the International and Great Northern, the San Antonio and Gulf Shore, and the San Antonio and Aransas Pass, and other railroads; 80 miles S. W. of Austin . Here are the headquarters of the United States Military Department of Texas, a United States Military Reservation covering 200 acres, St. Louis College (R. C.), St. Mary's College (R. C.), San Antonio Academy, Ursuline Academy, West Texas Military Academy, a collegiate institute , high school, str street railroad and electric light plants, court house, United States Government building, ding, a number of National and State banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. In many lines, especially in manufacturing , San Antonio is the distributing point for the entire State. San Antonio has 34 beautiful parks and plazas scattered about the city , comprising 423 acres and valued at more than $2,000,000. Notable among these is Brackenridge Park with an area of about 200 acres, fifteen minutes from the center of the city; and San Pedro with an area of about 40 acres, ten minutes from the center of the city. San Antonio is the seat of Protestant Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops. There were in 1919, 37 public and 25 private schools, with 24,491 enrolled in the public schools. It has an extensive trade in peanuts, livestock, hides, lumber, cotton , and wool , and manufactories of flour, ice, cars, brick and tile, shoes, etc. , and an assessed property valuation of over $388,000,000. San Antonio had in 1919 , 28 banks-National, State and private . Their combined capital was more than $8,000,000; their deposits average about $50,000,000 and their loans over $36,000,000. In 1714 the Spanish constructed Fort San Fernando on the right bank of the San Pedro, and four years later the Alamo mission was founded, but afterward both were removed to the site of San Antonio. During the Spanish and Mexican régimes San Antonio was the capital of Texas. In 1836 the massacre of the Alamo occurred here, and in 1861 the Union forces under General Twiggs were forced to capitulate. In 1873 San Antonio received a city charter. Pop. (1910 ) 96,614; (1920) 161,379.
San Antonio the name of several capes: (1) A cape at the S
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the name of several capes: (1) A cape at the S. entrance to the Rio de la Plata, in the Argentine Republic. (2) a cape in Spain, on the E. coast, in the province of Alicante, and extending into the Mediterranean Sea. (3) A headland in Brazil, at the entrance to the Bay of Bahia, and on which is a lighthouse at the altitude of 140 feet above the sea. (4) The N. E. rocky peak, or pointed headland, in the island of Koonasheer, one of the Kooril group. (5) The W. point of Cuba.
San Antonio a river in Texas
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a river in Texas, formed by the union of Leon creek and Medina river, in Bexar co. Its course is east and through Wilson, Karnes, and Goliad counties. It flows into the Espiritu Santo Bay, an indenture of the Gulf of Mexico, and is nearly 200 miles long.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's counted 161,379 people in 1920 and an economy built on peanuts, hides, wool and cotton; San Antonio passed 1.4 million at the 2020 census and is now the seventh-largest city in the United States, living chiefly on the military, tourism, medicine and finance. The Alamo of the 1836 "massacre" is still the central shrine, but in 2015 UNESCO made it and the four other Spanish colonial missions along the river a World Heritage Site, the only one in Texas. The San Antonio river that Collier's described in a single dry paragraph was channelled and landscaped from the late 1930s into the River Walk, today the state's most visited attraction. The army headquarters Collier's noted grew into Fort Sam Houston and the huge Air Force complexes at Randolph, Lackland and the former Kelly Field, still the city's economic backbone.
Written for this edition, 2026.