Tag: Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

Visitors to the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park took a deep dive into archaeology Saturday morning with the park’s Archaeology Fair to celebrate Texas Archaeology Month. The fair featured booths with hands-on activities and presentations for attendees from local and state organizations like the Brownsville Historical Association, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools (CHAPS) and Texas Parks and Wildlife.

It’s a humid Saturday morning as a small group gathers on the edge of the prairie in the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park as Ruben Martinez, dressed as a 19th-century infantryman from the Mexican army, and Travis Dotson, dressed as a U.S. Army Pvt., raise their muskets to fire out into the brush for an artillery demonstration.

A cloud of smoke trailed from a 6-pounder field gun over the prairie of Palo Alto Saturday morning as Mexican and U.S. soldiers once...