Eleven miles north of Randado, the complex is part of the conglomerate of nineteenth-century ranches throughout South Texas historically tied to artesian wells. Las Albercas includes a large, flat-roofed, caliche-block, fortified dwelling with a thirty-foot-high torreón (bastion) that may be glimpsed, at a distance, on the north side of the road immediately after crossing the creek.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Las Albercas de Abajo", [Hebbronville, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-KA24.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 263-263.
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