[throw0101c]

> I grew up in El Paso Texas and there is a huge refinery in the lower valley and it completely ruined the quality of life. It’s located in a poor immigrant neighborhood right in the city core.

What came first, the city core with residential neighbourhoods or the refinery?

(Some people complain about Van Nuys airport (KVNY), but the airport was there first (the famous scene in the 1942 film Casablanca was shot there), and people built residences around it.)

[hotpotamus]

What is now known as El Paso has been inhabited for thousands of years, but I always think of as the formal starts to a lot of Texas cities (speaking as a San Antonio native) that we would recognize are when the Spanish built missions with the goal of colonizing the areas. It looks like that began in El Paso circa 1682. So some time before the refineries.

https://www.elpasodiocese.org/historic-missions.html