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by hotpotamus 981 days ago
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