MISSION ESPADA
Mission — San Antonio, Texas
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/mission-espada-san-antonio-texas/

The 1731 mission with the still-running aqueduct.

A mission in San Antonio, Texas, Mission Espada is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1731 mission with the still-running aqueduct. It sits in the archive under missions, local folklore and haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.

Espada is the moved — the 'first Texas' that's the '90 start, the 'fled east' that's the Weches's end. The 'water still' is the run — the '275 years' that's the aqueduct's flow, the 'arches carry' that's the creek's cross. The 'dam curved' is the built — the 'wrong way' that's the shape's bend, the 'goat milk' that's the mortar's mix.
The 'acequia dug' is the first — the 'before walls' that's the ditch's order, the 'gravity fed' that's the water's way. The '230 fled' is the emptied — the 'Apache feared' that's the '37 run, the 'smallpox' that's the return's cost. Espada is the complete — the 'most original' that's the system's mark, the 'still works' that's the water's proof.
The file keeps Espada: the moved mission, the running water, the wrong-way dam, and the complete acequia.
Mission Espada is the archive's Texas file — the water that still runs 275 years on.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Mission Espada is the archive's Texas file — where the aqueduct never stopped.
A ditch keeps its flow — the file's suggestion being that Espada's hold is the running: the '275 years' that's the aqueduct's age, the 'dam curved wrong' that's the engineering's mark, and the 'dug first' that's the water's priority.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Reported a presence in the church. Sacred ground in San Antonio, Texas keeps its own kind of haunting — quieter, and harder to dismiss. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Sources including 'Mission Espada' keep the claim in circulation. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: Mission Espada (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Espada)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Founded 1731; its aqueduct still functions. The site's documented religious history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Mission Espada' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The file stays open on it.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Mission Espada — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Espada

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