Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos preserves Hispanic history [Video]

For more than a decade, a cultural center has been serving the growing Latino community in Hays County by preserving history, offering opportunity and giving the community a place to feel at home.

In a historically Hispanic neighborhood in San Marcos, a building that used to segregate Hispanic students now welcomes everyone through its doors while preserving culture and history.

“It’s important to see who is your neighbor and to appreciate them,” said Gloria Salazar, co-founder of the nonprofit Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos.

Late community leader Ofelia Vasquez-Philo approached Salazar, Lupe Costilla, Margie Villalpando and Dr. Rosina Ruiz Valle with the idea in the mid-2000s.

“We met at her kitchen table for like five years as we hashed it all out,” Salazar said. 

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