. The geography of Texas, physical and political. Fig. 102. Courthouse and Main Plaza, San AntonioCopyright, lOOo and 1904, by Nic. Tengg. Used by permission. Tig. 103. r::i)i;:;AL *;, San Antonio Copyright, 1903 and 1904, by Nic. Tengg. Used by permission 159 160 Tin: GEOCiRAPIIY OF TEXAS side of Alamo Plaza; the City Hall, in the center of Mili-tary Plaza; and the Market House and Convention Hall,on Hay market Plaza. There are, in addition, twenty-onepublic-school buildings valued at ^450,000. Of the four hundred and twenty-five miles of streetswithin the corporate limits, fourteen ar
. The geography of Texas, physical and political. Fig. 102. Courthouse and Main Plaza, San AntonioCopyright, lOOo and 1904, by Nic. Tengg. Used by permission. Tig. 103. r::i)i;:;AL *;, San Antonio Copyright, 1903 and 1904, by Nic. Tengg. Used by permission 159 160 Tin: GEOCiRAPIIY OF TEXAS side of Alamo Plaza; the City Hall, in the center of Mili-tary Plaza; and the Market House and Convention Hall,on Hay market Plaza. There are, in addition, twenty-onepublic-school buildings valued at ^450,000. Of the four hundred and twenty-five miles of streetswithin the corporate limits, fourteen are paved, seventy-one macadamized, and all are kept in an excellent condi-tion. The city has also constructed a sewer system, atthe cost of 1500,000, the length of which in the aggregateis seventy-one miles. The striking features of San Antonio, however, are itsparks and plazas, of which there are twenty-one. Muchof historic interest centers at Alamo Plaza on account ofthe scenes enacted at and about the Alamo, which facesthis park. Brackenridge Park, comprising two hundredacres, with its natural forest growth, and San Pedro Park,containing fifty acres,
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