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Article: Fertile ground for expansion.(San Antonio)
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- Chain Drug Review
- Article date:
- December 15, 2003
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SAN ANTONIO -- Once known primarily for its colorful history and importance as a military complex, San Antonio has developed into one of the major metropolitan centers in the United States. The steady growth it has experienced over the past decade is expected to continue apace in the next several years.
San Antonio's origins lie in the tiny settlement that grew up around a Catholic mission that was established by the Spanish and named for St. Anthony in the early 1700s. That mission--later known as the Alamo--became fabled as "the birthplace of Texas liberty" after a legendary battle that was precipitated when immigrant settlers from the United States rebelled ...