The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 9, July 1905 - April, 1906 Page: 284
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substantial building at the Nacogdoches mission at that time was
the adobe church, the other buldings all being of wood. He says:
"The location of the mission of Nuestra Sefiora de Guacralupe de
Albuquerque de los Nacogdoches is in a moderate-sized plain, which
is surrounded by a permanent arroyo having an abundance of
water, but no ditch to irrigate the crops. . . . The church,
although small, is of adobe, roofed with taxamanil (some kind of
shingles), and is entirely surrounded on the outside by a palisade
of stakes. The living-place of the ministers is of wood, very reg-
ularly put together, and has a roof of taxamanil which affords good
protection. It is surrounded on all four sides by a palisade of
stakes, and has a kitchen, granary, and rooms for the soldiers. Be-
sides this house there are other separate ones of the same ma-
terial [wood], well made, capacious, and decent."
The "Fort" was made of good-sized stones. This material could
not conceivably have been called "adobe" by a Mexican. The build-
ing was too large and too substantial to escape mention by Solis
in so minute a description as the above, had it been one of the
mission buildings when he wrote. And since the mission was the
only 'authorized establishment there at the time, we can not sup-
pose that such a building as the "Fort" existed on the site uncon-
nected with the mission.
The mission had long languished near the point of extinction,
and now, soon after Solis's visit, it was abandoned, hence the
"Fort" could not have been erected between Solis's visit and
Ybarbo's settlement at Nacogdoches in 1779. 'The only buildings
mentioned by Yb.arbo in telling of his entry into the place were
the same church and priests' house described above. He writes
that he 'and his people journeyed "until there were seen the site
of the Texas Indians, and, three leagues beyond, the old mission
of N'acogdoches, where there was a small chapel in which the
reverend father may perform the holy sacraments and a house
where he may live."
Solis's description of these buildings sets aside the conjecture
made in the QUARTERLY (IX, 129) that one of those mentioned
by Ybarbo might possibly have been the "Fort"; and the mention
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