Socorro

The refugees of 1680 were left in stages along the river. Governor Otermín and Father Francisco de Ayeta settled some at El Paso del Norte, another group at Senecú and the Tiguas at Ysleta del Sur. The fourth stop was here, fifteen miles from El Paso del Norte, probably on October 13, 1680, when the Franciscan Antonio Guerra said Mass. In 1692 Fray Joaquín de Hinojosa received the royal titles to the mission and its lands, and in 1693 only fifteen Spanish and sixty Piro families remained.

What the plaque says

Socorro Site of the mission and pueblo of Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion Del Pueblo de Socorro established by Don Antonio de Otermin and Father Fray Francisco Ayeta, O.F.M. in 1683. Maintained by Franciscan missionaries for the civilizing and Christianizing of the Piro, Thano and Gemex Indians, refugees after the pueblo revolt in New Mexico. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Socorro Mission (Nuestra Senora de la Limpia Concepcion del Socorro) — steps away
  Socorro's adobe church on the El Paso Mission Trail, with walls five feet thick, carved vigas from an older church and a statue of Saint Michael said to have chosen the town.
• Tigua Indian Cultural Center, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo — 1.9 mi
  The cultural center of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, the Tigua nation that has lived in the Mission Valley of El Paso since 1682 and keeps its own history here.
• Ysleta Mission (Corpus Christi de la Ysleta del Sur) — 2.6 mi
  The Tigua mission church at Ysleta, rebuilt in 1908 around the walls, bell and Santo Entierro that came through fire, its interior painted with rain clouds and corn.
• San Elizario Historic District — 5.4 mi
  A plaza of adobe buildings at the end of the El Paso Mission Trail: an 1877 chapel, Gregorio Garcia's portaled house and the old county jail of Billy the Kid legend.

More markers nearby

• Socorro Mission La Purísima — steps away
• The Camino Real — steps away
• Early Site of Socorro Mission — 0.7 mi
• Rio Vista Farm — 2.2 mi