Porvenir, Texas

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Site of the Porvenir Massacre of 1918, when Texas Rangers took 15 men and boys out of their homes before shooting them in a nearby hillside. The village was immediately abandoned by the surviving residents, who fled to Pilares, a Mexican village just across the border. The U.S. Army subsequently razed the uninhabited village.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porvenir_massacre_(1918)
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Coordinates:   30°25'10"N   104°50'36"W
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