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Menard Irrigation Ditch

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1874. Starts at Canal Street and US 83.

In 1874, a local cooperative built a dam near where the road (now TX 190) to Fort McKavett (SS39) crosses the San Saba River and dug an irrigation canal nearly five miles long into central Menardville. It partially traced the route of the acequia constructed in 1761 for irrigation and to transport stones for the fortification of the Presidio de San Luis de las Amarillas (SS38). A map by engineer Nicolas de la Fora, from 1766, shows the acequia. The “ditch,” as the canal was called, has been in continuous operation ever since; the Menard Chamber of Commerce posts a ditch-watering schedule on its front door.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Sacred Heart Catholic Church
First State Bank of Menard
Menard County Courthouse
Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas (Real Presidio de San Sabá)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Menard Irrigation Ditch", [Menard, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SS35.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 420-420.

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