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How a Construction Crew Stumbled Upon a Cornerstone of San Antonio’s Black History
For decades, San Antonio drivers parked their cars in the surface lot on Houston Street between the old Alameda Theater and the old county jail. The lot was like dozens of others downtown—hard, flat, dirty. Nobody thought much about what lay beneath it.Then, in February 2020, just before the COVID pandemic, construction workers were digging up the asphalt, pounding the dirt and rock with jackhammers, clearing out the whole area to widen the nearby San Pedro Creek as part of an ambitious city flood-control and beautification project, when one of the crewmembers hit a patch of limestone wall. It was the foundation of a building, clearly from another century. Suddenly the excavation site became an archaeological site. Digging was now done by hand, with trowels…The post How a Construction Crew Stumbled Upon a Cornerstone of San Antonio’s Black History appeared first on Texas Monthly.