Editing San Angelo, Texas (section)

==History==

In 1632, a short-lived mission of Franciscans under Spanish auspices was founded in the area to serve native people.
The mission was led by the friars [[Juan de Salas (friar)|Juan de Salas]] and Juan de Ortega, with Ortega remaining for six months.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsa06 |last=Blake |first=Robert Bruce |title=SALAS, JUAN DE |work=Handbook of Texas Online |access-date=July 21, 2012 |date=June 15, 2010 |publisher=Texas State Historical Association}}</ref>
The area was visited by the Castillo-Martin expedition of 1650 and the [[Diego de Guadalajara expedition]] of 1654.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wade|first=Maria de Fátima|title=The Native Americans of the Texas Edwards Plateau, 1582–1799 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2qo2X2VPukC&pg=PA74|access-date=July 21, 2012|year=2003|publisher=[[University of Texas Press]]|isbn=978-0-292-79156-5|page=74}}</ref>

During the development the region, San Angelo was at the western edge of the region called Texas, successively claimed in the 1800s by the nations of [[Spanish Texas|Spain]], [[Mexican Texas|Mexico]], the [[Republic of Texas]], and finally, the [[Texas|United States]] in 1846.

The city of San Angelo was founded in 1867, when the United States built Fort Concho, one of a series of new forts designed to protect the frontier. The fort was home to cavalry, infantry, and the famous Black Cavalry, also known as [[buffalo soldiers]] by American Indians.

The settler Bartholomew J. DeWitt founded the village of Santa Angela outside the fort at the junction of the North and South Concho Rivers. He named the village after his wife, Carolina Angela. The name was eventually changed to San Angela. The name would change again to San Angelo in 1883 on the insistence of the [[United States Postal Service]], as San Angela was grammatically incorrect in Spanish. <!-- The preceding statement is factually incorrect because the USPS was not formed until the 1970s. --> The town became a trade center for farmers and settlers in the area, as well as a fairly lawless cowtown filled with brothels, saloons, and gambling houses.

After being designated as the county seat, the town grew quickly in the 1880s, aided by being on the route of newly constructed railroads. It became a central transportation hub for the region. The [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe|Santa Fe Railroad]] arrived in 1888 and the [[Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway]] in 1909.<ref name="hand">{{cite web| last = Duke | first = Escal F. | title = SAN ANGELO, TX | work= The Handbook of Texas Online | url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hds01 | access-date = April 22, 2013|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|date=June 15, 2010}}</ref> After a [[tuberculosis]] (TB) outbreak hit the United States in the early 1900s, many patients moved to San Angelo. At the time, doctors could only recommend rest in dry, warm climates. TB sufferers went to San Angelo for treatment, and a sanitarium was built in nearby Carlsbad.

In 1928, the city founded San Angelo College, one of the region's first institutes of higher education. The city had been passed over by the [[Texas State Legislature]] to be the home of what would become [[Texas Tech University]]. San Angelo College, one of the first municipal colleges, has grown to become [[Angelo State University]]. The military returned to San Angelo during [[World War II]] with the founding of Goodfellow Air Force Base, which was assigned to train pilots at the time. San Angelo grew exponentially during the oil boom of the 1900s, when vast amounts of oil were found in the area, and the city became a regional hub of the oil and gas industry.<ref name="hand"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sanangelo.org/downhome/history.php|title=About San Angelo: Our History|access-date=December 19, 2014|publisher=Sanangelo.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023060036/http://www.sanangelo.org/downhome/history.php|archive-date=October 23, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The San Angelo Independent School District is a public school district based in San Angelo, Texas, and became one of the first in Texas to integrate, doing so voluntarily in 1955.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.andrewbutlerphotos.com/Other/Historical-Markers-Tom-Green/16526472_ZtXd2L |title=Historical Markers – Andrew Butler Photos |publisher=andrewbutlerphotos.com |date=February 9, 2013 |access-date=April 22, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020060940/http://www.andrewbutlerphotos.com/Other/Historical-Markers-Tom-Green/16526472_ZtXd2L |archive-date=October 20, 2011 }}</ref>

San Angelo was famous for [[Miss Wool of America Pageant]], an annual event organized by the National Wool Growers Association (U.S.)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hite|first=Gerron S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gyUkXfRE7qMC&q=Miss+Wool+of+America+Pageant&pg=PA57|title=San Angelo 1950s and Beyond|date=2013|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-9686-0|pages=57|language=en}}</ref>