Villarreal Rancho Well, San Isidro, Starr County3D ModelNoAI
Complex water wells like this one were vital to early cattle ranching in Deep South Texas. These norias were often equipped with wooden structures supporting a series of buckets to retreive water from deep below the surface. Tejanos - descendants of Spanish, Mexican, and Mestizo settlers to the area - dug these wells by hand. They carved large rectangular stones out of the ground as they did so, which were used to build this and other structures.
This noria is located on private property belonging to descendants of the Villarreal family. This and other structures were documented in May and June of 2023 as part of the archaeological field school directed by Dr. Edward González-Tennant of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
This model was created from more than 2,500 images in Agisoft Metashap Pro. Additional editing of the model and textures took place in Blender and Affinity Photo. This model has reduced complexity to reduce load times.
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