{"nrhp_refnum":"76002084","name":"Los Ojuelos","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2.5 mi. S of Mirando City on SR 649","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mirando City","county":"Webb County","state":"TX","lat":27.403772089000057,"lon":-98.99529702868894,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-12-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of 13 stone houses and related buildings, ten of them ruins, forming a Mexican-American hacienda-ranch settlement about 2.5 miles south of Mirando City on Farm Road 649 in Webb County, Texas. Extant buildings date from the 1860s or later.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the site is a unique collection of architecturally distinctive Mexican-American vernacular structures, similar to the mid-19th century community of Vallecillo, Nuevo Leon. It also holds archeological deposits that could yield data on the economic relations and material culture of the community, which has not been studied archeologically.","narrative":"Los Ojuelos is a ranch settlement of sandstone houses and ruins on a slope above a tributary of Retamia Creek, south of Mirando City. Thirteen structures remain, built of hewn, chinked and plastered sandstone blocks. Ten are ruins, and a few retain flat roofs or hip roofs. One cottage has a roof beam dated 1879. The site was apparently settled briefly in 1810 under a Spanish grant, then resettled in 1855-1857 by the Guerra brothers, who recruited emigrants from Mexico. Population reached about 400 and the ranch grew to roughly 20,000 acres, raising cattle, horses, wool and corn. Population declined after 1910, and the school and church closed in 1942 after oil was found nearby. The district was listed for its distinctive Mexican-American vernacular architecture, which resembles Vallecillo in Nuevo Leon, and for archeological deposits that may reveal how the community lived and traded.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular (Mexican-American); flat-roofed Colonial-style casas de terrado and hip-roofed two-room structures","criteria":[],"status_note":"Of 13 structures, 10 are ruins and three are in fair to good condition; two of those are inhabited. Described as having no major intrusions.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.63122-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/9739/40973942/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/76002084.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973942","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Ojuelos,_Texas","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6683022"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/webb-county/los-ojuelos-76002084/"}