Check out this 1963 industrial film called “Hands Across the Border”, which features the Rio Vista Bracero Reception Center in Socorro, Texas. This film is available thanks to the Texas Archive of the Moving Image and the Texas Film Commission. As per the description on their website, narrator Lynn Pitcher follows a group of Braceros …
Let us Celebrate Socorro! On December 13, 2023, the Rio Vista Farm was officially designated a National Historic Landmark by the Secretary of the Interior, categorizing it with the same importance as the Alamo or Lincoln Memorial! Throughout its 101 years—from beginnings as a poor farm to sheltering of children during the Great Depression and point …
AUSTIN, TEXAS – (October 26, 2023) – The Texas Transportation Commission (TCC) approved $16,174,505 in Transportation Alternatives funding for the City of Socorro to develop a 7-mile segment of the Paso del Norte Trail along the historic Mission Trail in Socorro, Texas. The City of Socorro will use this financial assistance for planning, engineering, design …
FEBRUARY 2022, SOCORRO, TEXAS – The Texas Historical Commission awarded the City of Socorro $30,000 in grant funding to support the ongoing Rio Vista Farm rehabilitation capital project. The Texas Historical Commission Certified Local Government (CLG) Grants Program provides funding to participating city governments to develop and sustain an effective local preservation program critical to …
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On March 1, 2022, the National Trust for Historic Preservation program awarded $50,000 to the City of Socorro. This funding comes from NTHP’s Telling the Full History Preservation Fund. The fund is a one-time grant program to interpret and preserve historic places of importance to underrepresented communities across states and territories of the United States. The …
JANUARY 2022, SOCORRO, TEXAS – The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Challenge America Program awarded $10,000 to the Socorro Youth !n Culture Program (SY!C). Challenge America grants offer support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to populations that have limited access to the arts due …
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