SAN ANTONIO – Hidden histories of San Antonio’s East Side will soon be shown in a new way.
“There’s so much history,” said Lindsey Logan, the vice president of programs and operations for the group San Antonio for Growth on the East Side (SAGE). “The East Side is rich in culture.”
This month, the city approved four more markers to be placed in the Denver Heights neighborhood to highlight Black history.
Since 2018, SAGE has worked on the project with professor and past city councilman Mario Marcel Salas with the City’s Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone.
Last year, the team placed three historic markers across the East Side. One more marker approved last year is still waiting to be installed.
That means eight markers will be placed in total by the end of the year.
“A lot of our older areas have been torn down, and there is no other way to remember someone than to place this plaque,” Logan said.
Salas said he started this project out of concern that history could be lost with city changes.
“Buildings are being torn down, schools are being demolished, and then there’s no history of who went there or what it meant to the community at the time,” Salas said. “Every neighborhood has its own story.”
The four new historical markers can be found at:
- 226 North Hackberry
- 506 Montana
- 202 Connelly
- 935 Iowa.
Plaques have been ordered and should be installed by the fall.