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The strategic site was recognized in 1598 by Juan de Oñate, colonizer of New Mexico, who called it El Paso del Norte (Spanish: “The Pass of the North”).

El Chuco. Not to be confused with Chico's, El Chuco is a nickname for El Paso. The term comes from the word “pachuco,” a Mexican Spanish Caló dialect of disputed origin, dating from the 1930s-1940s. Another variation may be Chuco Town.

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Milestones: When Marcellus Washington Carrico produced the first edition of the El Paso Times in 1881, El Paso was a frontier town of adobe buildings and 800 residents. The weekly was a four-page, seven-column publication; subscriptions were $3 a year. In less than a year the newspaper became the town's first daily.

Originally, it was "El Paso del Norte" or "the pass to the north." It was literally the passage between Juarez and Las Cruces. It means literally, "The Pass" in Spanish. Much of the names in that part of the country has a Hispanic origin.

The entrada then continued up the river until it reached present-day El Paso. Here, the river flowed through a break in the mountains. Termed "El Paso del Río del Norte—the pass of the north—it would serve as the Spanish gateway to the West.

Most authorities agree that the arrival of the railroads in 1881 and 1882 was the single most significant event in El Paso history, as it transformed a sleepy, dusty little adobe village of several hundred inhabitants into a flourishing frontier community that became the county seat in 1883 and reached a population of ...

El Paso del Norte (present-day Ciudad Juárez) was founded on the south bank of the Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande), in 1659 by Fray Garcia de San Francisco.