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Rio Vista Historic Farm District was named a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, on December 13, 2023. The Rio Vista Farm buildings and surrounding fields in Socorro, TX are included in the Historic Landmark district. The farm was created in 1915, as the El Paso Poor Farm. It served orphaned children and homeless adults of mostly Hispanic descent. During the Great Depression the population grew and a variety of public welfare programs became available to farm residents. During this time through World War II, the farm was renamed Rio Vista and large numbers of neglected children were housed there. From 1950-1964 served as a processing center for the Bracero Program which brought Mexicans to the United States as guest agricultural works.^[1]

Rio Vista Farm took on a new role when part of it became a training academy for the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. After that time, the building which had been the farm's main building became The Rio Vista Recreation Center while the most of the rest of the farm went unused and it's buildings began to deteriorate. In 2015, it was added to the Preservation Texas' list of endangered places.

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