Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateġ of2 Visitors watch the polar bears from a safe distance at the San Antonio Zoo soon after the new “barless” exhibit opened in 1929. PARK HISTORY: Tea garden once a city showplace 29, 1930, “in all the world, there is not another abandoned manufacturing site of comparable interest and charm,” citing “Brackenridge Park, with its unique Sunken Garden and Japanese Lily Ponds (now the Japanese Tea Garden)” and the “section of the old quarry which the city of San Antonio now uses to house the cages of its zoological exhibit.” As the cement company said in a 50th anniversary advertisement in the San Antonio Express, Jan. He may have come back later to the old quarry to work on one of the many civic-minded projects that made use of its strengths - natural beauty and essentially free rock. Earlier than that, the directories list him as a gardener or laborer. Most documents list his occupation as “carpenter,” including the 1910, 19 U.S. Refugio Lopez probably didn’t stay with the cement company. UTSA Special Collections/Courtesy UTSA special collection The company, which made a product based on crushed limestone fired with other materials, moved in 1908 from its first site near Brackenridge Park. with its three smokestacks, which still tower over the Alamo Quarry market today. This 1926 photo shows the exterior of the San Antonio Portland Cement Co. After that, the city-owned tract became a city quarry that supplied crushed rock for street building, a trash dump and a materials yard (storage space for construction materials). ![]() ![]() Once this original quarry was played out, with high-quality stone harder to excavate, the company, renamed the San Antonio Portland Cement Co., moved to its new quarters known as Cementville on what is now the site of the Alamo Quarry Market. READ MORE: Smokestacks at Alamo Quarry designed in early 1900s ![]() (Portland cement uses a mixture of ground limestone and other materials fired in a kiln and ground again to make an exceptionally strong type of cement for concrete, known as “artificial stone.”) From 1880 to 1908, it was leased by the Alamo Cement Co., the first manufacturer of Portland cement west of the Mississippi River. Your grandfather, who lived from 1867 to 1941, might have worked in that quarry at several stages of his life, as the area progressed through different stages of its own.
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