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to, as being at the site of Mission La Purisima Concepci6n, when
I was informed that these springs were just across the road, under
the hill, from the farmer's home.
Even in their neglected and abandoned condition, choked with
the sand and silt of two centuries, the location and appearance
of these springs, would leave little doubt in the mind of the his-
torian, of the verity of the mission site, especially since there
was found, up the hill a short distance from the twin springs,
two piles of native red rock, having every appearance of being
the remains of the rock chimneys of Mission Concepci6n. It is
on that site that the Centennial Commission has erected the
marker for this mission.
It was here, more than two centuries ago, that Cheocas, chief
of the Hainai and governor of the confederated Texas tribes, ruled
his people. Here the Indian maiden, Angelina, first native mis-
sionary to the East Texas Indians, guided the spiritual lives of
her people. Here Father Margil de Jesfis conferred with Father
Espinosa in their plans for the conversion of these simple, friendly
people, the only civilized Indians north of Old Mexico.
Reluctantly I wended my way westward toward the Angelina,
the Santa Barbara of the Marquis of Aguayo, entering the city
limits of the ghost town of Mount Sterling. Halting at the brow
of the bluff, overlooking the Angelina, I looked down upon the
stream where one hundred years ago John Durst had planned his
wharves and docks of the future metropolis of East Texas. His
hopes were blasted by the C6rdova Rebellion of 1838, and now
nothing remains of his once palatial home that stood near a beau-
tiful spring which still flows, as clear as crystal, from the red rock.
Turning north at the eastern end of Goodman bridge on the
Angelina, I soon crossed Los Terreros, now known as Mill Creek.
Continuing northward, along the old Indian road that led from
the Hainai village to the village of the Nasones, at a distance of
approximately one league, or 2.63 miles, from the site of Mission
Concepci6n, at the intersection with the John Durst road, I passed
the rolling hill farm where the Old Presidio overlooked Mill Creek
in 1716.
Pefia's diary of the Aguayo expedition, heretofore cited, says:
On the twenty-ninth [of November, 1721] his Lordship
arrived at the Texas presidio and here, in the form of a square,220
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