Chamizal National Memorial
Chamizal National Memorial
Chamizal National Memorial
Chamizal National Memorial located at 800 S. San Marcial St., El Paso, TX 79905. In far west Texas, near El Paso, the Chamizal National Memorial is dedicated to the Chamizal treaty of 1963, signed by President John F. Kennedy and Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos. That treaty peacefully resolved a boundary issue that had been a sore point between the two nations for over 100 years. Because the Rio Grande had changed course, as rivers do, the two countries couldn’t agree on the exact international boundary. The 1963 treaty equitably divided 600 acres between the two countries. Chamizal is one of two national park sites in America that commemorate a peaceful solution to an international boundary dispute.
Report this entry
More from the same community-collection
Drug Store and East El Paso Grocery Store - 1907
The Alameda - Piedras intersection was a business corner in ...
Association of Negro Musicians Conference, El Paso, TX 1925
The First Annual Conference of the West Texas Division of the ...
Teachers in Front of Douglass School - El Paso, Texas
Several teachers, including Blanche Phillips, congregated in ...
Teachers and Students in front of Douglass School in the 1940s
The image shows Principal Olalee McCall, George Chandler, and ...
Members of the American Legion Club
Members of the Col. Louis A. Carter Post No. 58A of the American ...
McCall Nursery in 1940s - El Paso, Texas
Lola Brown looks over the activities of her class at the MaCall ...
Charter members of American Legion Club
Charter members of the Col. Louis A. Carter Post No. 58A of the ...
Plaques at Chamizal National Memorial
2 signs or plaques on the wall of the Chamizal Nat. Memorial ...
Boundary Marker - Chamizal National Memorial
One of the original boundary markers between the USA & Mexico ...
Boundry Markers Chamizal Nat. Monument
Original boundry markers beween the USA & Mexico before the ...