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Photograph of workmen demolishing Cotton Mill. This photograph accompanied an El Paso Times article on Florentino Pacheco headlined, "Chamizal Resident Lonely."

Photograph of Florentino Pacheco's home at 1214 Algodon Place in the Cotton Mill Addition to the City of El Paso. This home was condemned and demolished as part of the Chamizal Treaty.

Documents of support related to Florentino Pacheco's Cotton Mill home submitted as part of Declaration of Taking by the International Boundary and Water Commission for Chamizal Treaty.

El Paso Times newspaper clipping announcing 51st wedding anniversary of Agustina and Valetín Hernandez.

Tract map of Cordova Gardens Addition to the City of El Paso. Cordova Gardens was added to El Paso in 1941. The land was part of the Martinez Estate and was nestled within Mexico's Cordova Island. The neighborhood would be ceded to Mexico as part of…

El Paso Times report on the Cordova Gardens Homeowners Association, which was an advocacy group for Cordova Gardens residents. Cordova Gardens was one of several South El Paso neighborhoods condemned by the Chamizal Treaty, which ceded 437-acres of…

1952 Deed of Sale to Valetin and Agustina Hernandez to Cordova Gardens property at 3520 Oak Street in El Paso, Texas. This property will later be condemned by the U.S. federal government by virtue of the Chamizal Treaty.

Documents of support related to Valetin and Agustina Hernandez' Cordova Gardens home submitted as part of Declaration of Taking by the International Boundary and Water Commission for Chamizal Treaty.

Map produced by the Mexican state showing many of the Rio Grande's meanderings across El Chamizal from 1827-1896.

Black and white photograph showing El Paso-Cd. Juarez border with natural Rio Grande riverbed and new concrete canal built as part of the Chamizal Treaty of 1964.