Mission Santa Cruz de San Saba

The Handbook of Texas says the presidio site has seen only limited archeological work: a surface survey by A. T. Jackson and A. M. Woolsey in 1934, testing by Dessamae Lorrain and Kathleen Gilmore for the State Building Commission in 1967, and further testing by Jack Ivey in 1981 and Daniel Fox in 1983. Finds include flint scrapers and projectile points, aboriginal pottery, Spanish colonial ceramics, gunflints and metal. The site belongs to Menard County as the Presidio de San Sabá Historical Site.

What the plaque says

This building was originally built as a presidio or fort and the Mission was apart from it. After the Mission was attacked and burned by Indians, all personnel moved into the presidio. (1962)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Presidio de San Saba — steps away
  The ruins of the largest Spanish presidio in Texas, built in 1757 to guard a mission to the Lipan Apache, where the Comanche and their allies first turned back Spain's frontier.
• Fort McKavett State Historic Site — 19 mi
  The post Sherman called the prettiest in Texas, home to soldiers of all four Buffalo Soldier regiments and then to a town that lived in its buildings until 1973.

More markers nearby

• Real Presidio de San Saba — steps away
• Arroyo de Juan Lorenzo — 0.4 mi
• The Ditch — 1.1 mi
• Paso de la Santa Cruz — 1.1 mi