Is Alamo connected to “Remember the Alamo”?
No. The city of Alamo’s name comes from Los Alamos, Spanish for Cottonwoods. When the King of Spain issued land grants in the mid-1700s there were many cottonwoods growing along the Rio Grande in this area and it became known as the Los Alamos land. Fort Alamo is located in San Antonio, about 250 miles north of us. We are known as the land of two summers. People also say of us “Remember the other Alamo”.
