Speaker. the hotels uniqueness and greatness stems from the fact that it has served San Antonians and visitors to San Antonio for 135 continuous years. Mr. Speaker. the hotel was built by German immigrants. A little known fact is the great historical importance of this section of Texas to the tremendous immigration streams that came from Germany right before. and especially after. the revolutions of 1848 in Germany. Another fact. by way of parenthesis. is the first Polish settlement in the United States was not up here in the Northeast or Northwest. It was 49 miles southeast of San Antonio in a place known as Spana Maria.
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