Old Mill on the Pajalache Acequia

Mills on this ditch go back to the Spanish years. In 1803 Juan Manuel Zambrano, subdeacon of San Fernando, asked the governor to grant him property along the irrigation ditch of Mission Concepción so that he could set up a flour mill. The ditch itself, the Concepción or Pajalache acequia, was built in 1729 and was the oldest and largest of San Antonio's irrigation canals, running along the line of present Garden and Roosevelt streets to the mission and the fields beyond. It stayed in continual use until 1869, when it was abandoned.

What the plaque says

Old Mill on the Pajalache Acequia This mill built before 1824 on the Pajalache Acequia furnished food to early settlers and served as a resting place for travelers and Texas Soldiers en route to Bexar from the Missions.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mission Concepción — 0.6 mi
  A stone church dedicated in 1755 that has never fallen into ruin, its convento ceilings still painted, and the ground where the Texas Revolution's fight for San Antonio began.
• King William Historic District — 1.1 mi
  Mission farmland turned German merchants' quarter on the San Antonio River, renamed in World War I, then saved by a neighbor who restored fourteen houses, starting with his own.
• La Villita Historic Arts Village — 1.6 mi
  The little village across the river from the presidio, where Cos surrendered San Antonio in 1835, rebuilt by Depression-era youth crews as a working crafts village.
• San Antonio River Walk — 1.6 mi
  A Depression-era park one level below downtown, built because San Antonio refused to pave its river after the 1921 flood, and designed by an architect the project later fired.

More markers nearby

• Silvestre Revueltas — 0.7 mi
• Mission San Franscico Xavier de Najera — 1.0 mi
• Guenther's Upper Mill, Site of — 1.2 mi
• King William Neighborhood — 1.3 mi