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Mission San Lorenzo, Camp Wood, TX

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Mission San Lorenzo

Franciscan mission site in Nueces Canyon, founded in 1762 to reach the Lipan Apache people.

675 North Texas Highway 55, Camp Wood, Texas, 78833 · Camp Wood, TX

About Mission San Lorenzo

Mission San Lorenzo sits in Nueces Canyon near Camp Wood and marks a late effort by Franciscan friars to draw the Lipan Apache into Spanish Texas. Its founders, including a presidio captain who supplied money and soldiers, set it up without official Spanish approval, though the Church backed it. Early interest was strong, with hundreds of Lipan arriving, but raids, food shortages, and smallpox outbreaks in 1763 and 1764 wore the community down. The Lipan left by 1768, and the missionary work ended soon after. The site's own pages describe interpretive signs and a planned heritage and visitor center beside the mission.

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