SAN ELIZARIO PRESIDIO.
The Presidio de Nuestra Señora de las Caldas de Guajoquilla was established in 1752 on orders of Viceroy Revilla Gigedo at the site of present-day Jiménez, Chihuahua. The Marqués de Rubí, after his inspection of the late 1760s, recommended removal of the presidio to the Valley of San Eleceario as part of the new line of defense to be established by Hugo Oconór in the next decade. In 1789 the Presidio of San Elizario, named for St. Elzear-spelled Elzeario and otherwise in Spanish and Mexican documents-was moved up the Rio Grande to the hacienda of Tiburcios, the approximate site of the present town of San Elizario. The presidio was to protect the river settlements of Ysleta and Socorro and establish a colony of pacified Apaches. The perimeter enclosure with its thick adobeq walls included quarters for four officers, barracks for forty-three soldiers, guardhouses, corrals, storerooms, and a chapel.

Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "SAN ELIZARIO PRESIDIO," http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/uqs11.html (accessed July 16, 2005).