Mission Mier a Visita

A visita was a mission station with no resident priest, visited by a friar when one could come. This one served Mier, which Escandón formally incorporated on March 6, 1753, renaming the crossing El Paso del Cántaro and assigning lands to nineteen families under Captain José Florencio de Chapa. Carlos Castañeda places the visita on the site of present Roma. The arrangement left gaps. In 1761 settlers and the Native people around them (the plaque says Indians) threatened to leave unless given a priest, and a royal decree of 1763 ordered a remedy.

What the plaque says

Mission Mier a Visita In the vicinity of this site was Mission Mier a Visita; established in 1750 as a part of Jose de Escandon's project to settle the region and civilize and Christianize the Indians.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Roma Historic District — 3.8 mi
  A bluff-top Rio Grande steamboat port, now a National Historic Landmark District where Heinrich Portscheller's molded brick and walled stone compounds face Ciudad Miguel Alemán across the river.
• Falcon State Park — 11 mi
  A 576-acre state park at the foot of the Falcon International Reservoir, made by the dam Presidents Eisenhower and Ruiz Cortines dedicated in 1953, known for bass fishing, camping and brush-country birds.

More markers nearby

• Heinrich Portscheller — 3.8 mi
• Nuevo Santander Land Grants — 4.6 mi
• Farm Workers Movement in Texas — 12 mi
• Old Falcon — 13 mi