In the Vicinity of this Site was Mission Revilla a Visita

Revilla, now Guerrero, Tamaulipas, was the mother town of this stretch of the Texas bank. Vicente Guerra founded it on October 10, 1750, twenty leagues northwest of Camargo. Families from Revilla crossed the river to make Carrizo, San Ygnacio and Ramireño, and San Ygnacio took its name from Revilla's patron saint, Ignatius Loyola. José Luis Ramírez lived in Revilla until 1810 before building his sandstone house in Texas. In 1913 the revolution drove many Guerrero landowners the other way, across the river into Zapata County.

What the plaque says

In the Vicinity of this Site was Mission Revilla a Visita Established in 1750 as a part of Jose de Escandon's project to settle the region and civilize and Christianize the Indians. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Zapata County Museum of History — steps away
  The museum of a county whose old town of Zapata went under Falcon Reservoir, keeping the photographs, artifacts and natural history of the families who were moved.
• San Ygnacio Historic District — 14 mi
  A Rio Grande village of sandstone houses on land granted in 1750, home to the Treviño-Uribe Rancho, a fortified family compound begun in 1830 and a National Historic Landmark.
• Falcon State Park — 23 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

• Old Zapata — steps away
• Colonization of the Lower Rio Grande Area — steps away
• Site of Uribeño. — 5.6 mi
• Zapata County — 5.6 mi