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Laredo, Texas - Martin Health Sciences Magnet School
The graphs below show 15-minute average data collected at the site over the past three days. You can also download the raw data files and make your own graphs of the data from this and other photovoltaic systems from our data page. Please note: Performance data from this system and nearly 100 others on schools, businesses, and houses nationwide are presented at www.SolTrex.com, a new website that allows you to make custom graphs of the performance data from any system!
The Martin High School system began generating power on October 24, 1999. The system is rated at 4 kilowatts, but the photovoltaic array is mounted flat rather than at an angle pointing to the south. It is the only flat-mounted system in the Watts On Schools program. San Agustín de Laredo, a colonial city of New Spain founded in 1755, was named for a town in Santander, located on the north coast of Spain. Nuevo Santander, one of the last northern provinces of New Spain, was established by the Spaniard José de Escandón as part of a program to colonize northern Mexico. Appointed governor, Escandón was responsible for the colonization along the Río Grande, and a chain of six settlements were established, with Camargo being the earliest in 1749. The other outposts included Reynosa (1749), Dolores (1750), Revilla (1750), and Mier (1752). Since no missions or presidios were associated with its founding, Laredo is considered the oldest independent settlement in Texas and is the only remaining Spanish colonial settlement on the north bank of the lower Río Grande. Laredo was founded on the north bank of the Río Grande on May 15, 1755, when Captain Tomás Sánchez, with three families, was granted permission to settle 15 leagues of land near an Indian ford on the Río Grande. Operated as a family rancho, the Sánchez estate ran cattle, sheep, goats, horses, mules and oxen. In 1767, the city was laid out, and in the years to follow, ranching became the sustenance of the colony. The tumultuous Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 brought a tide of emigrants to Laredo. Many found employment in the booming industries of coal mining, onion agriculture, brick manufacturing, and later in the 1920s, oil and gas production. More barrios extended the city north of the Texas-Mexican Railway tracks and southeast of Chacon creek, and their names reflected a personality of place which continues in importance today. Many of these barrios such as La Ladrillera, Holy Redeemer, El Trece, La Guadalupe, Canta Rana, Los Amores, Sal Si Puedes, Chacon, and Santo Niño continue to serve as symbols of community identity and cohesiveness. By the mid 1950s, most of the Spanish ejidos were developed, and today the city's 19th century urban core remains intact. Known today as the city under seven flags, Laredo has emerged as the principal port of entry into Mexico. As the second fastest growing city in the nation, this border metropolis has greatly benefited from the well-planned, historic "Streets of Laredo," and its urban core continues to be reinvigorated as commercial areas and neighborhoods make the "Gateway City" their home. LOCAL LINKS BACK
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