490 Nuevo Leén: Local Archives 
Villaldama. 
At Villaldama, formerly Boca de Leones, there was founded in the eight- 
eenth century a hospicio (hospice) of the College of Guadalupe de Zacatecas, 
designed and used primarily as a resting station and retreat for the mission- 
aries of Texas. It is not impossible that something of interest concerning the 
work of this college in Texas might be found there. 
Lampazos. 
Lampazos was for a long time a very important outpost of Nuevo Leon. 
Here a mission was established by the College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro in 
the last years of the seventeenth century, of which Father Hidalgo, so prom- 
inent in Texas and on the Texas border, was one of the founders. Later a 
presidio and a civil settlement were established here, and the place became the 
outpost for the defense of the province against the inroads of the Indians 
from the north. 
