An archaeological assessment of the Alazán acequia (41BX620) in the Five Points area of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas

Abstract

In May 1996, while tunneling for a sewer line at the intersection of Cornell Street and Fredericksburg Road north of downtown San Antonio, contractors with the San Antonio River Authority (SARA) encountered the late-nineteenth-century Alazán Acequia from 7-14 ft below the modern surface. The Center for Archaeological Research entered into a contract with SARA to document the architecture and location of the acequia. The 1876 irrigation ditch, designated site 41BX620, was documented by photographs and measured drawings. A plan map of the location was drawn, and an artist's conception of the architecture was produced from photography, drawings, and archaeologists' descriptions.