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Don Florencio Saenz Homestead TX1245 |
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Built on family Spanish land grant in 1902. Headquarters for Toluca Ranch, which at one time stretched 17 miles north from the Rio Grande. Here Saenz operated a mercantile store, promoting cattle ranching and river farming as successful business ventures for the valley. Site of 1915 bandit raid in which a private was killed when U.S. soldiers discovered and fought off desperadoes trying to burn the house.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, State Historical Survey Committee, 1965.
Toluca Ranch, CR ¼ mile E. of FM-1015, ½ mile S. of US-281, Progreso, Hidalgo County Texas
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