1836 - The city of Houston began on August 30, 1836, when Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen ran an advertisement in the Telegraph and Texas...
FORT SABINE. Fort Sabine was off Farm Road 3322 and State Highway 87 one mile south of the Sabine Pass Battleground State Historical Park and fifteen...
PRESIDIO, TEXAS. Presidio is on the Rio Grande, Farm Road 170, and State Highway 67 eighteen miles south of Shafter in southern Presidio County. The...
FORT SAM HOUSTON. Fort Sam Houston is a major military installation in the northeast section of San Antonio. The United States Army first established...
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It was partly due to Gen Pershing’s experience in Texas that lead him to propose a network of military capable highways around the US for national...
COMANCHE, TEXAS. Comanche is located in the central part of Comanche County on U.S. highways 67 and 377. It was established in 1858, when John Duncan...
SMITHVILLE, TEXAS. Smithville, just off State Highway 71 and ten miles southeast of Bastrop in southeastern Bastrop County, was established by Thomas...
FORT BIRD. After the battle of Village Creek in May 1841, Gen. Edward H. Tarrant ordered the construction and garrisoning of a fort near the site to...
1721 - France was given a claim to Texas by the explorations of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and his establishment, in 1685, of La Salle's...
ROWNWOOD, TEXAS. Brownwood is on Pecan Bayou at the intersection of U.S. highways 67, 84, and 377, Farm Road 2524, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa...
As the Texas and New Orleans Railroad built through Eastern Texas even as war clouds were darkening, in 1860 they came to a grove of Chinaberry trees...
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I was confused for awhile. China, nee China Grove, named for Chinaberry trees, formerly Nashland, is west of Houston, close to Beaumont, on Highway...
FORT FISHER. Fort Fisher, at a site on the west bank of the Brazos River now within the Waco city limits, was built in February 1837 by Capt. Thomas...
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WRT dinosaurs, I believe you are referring to the Waco Mammoth National Historic Site. It is also worth the trip and it is free. There is also a...
1836 - John Kirby Allen and his brother, Augustus Chapman Allen purchased more than 6,600 acres of land around Buffalo Bayou and founded the city of...
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Even though they were new when my dad was a kid or even before he was born, these were the best cartoons.
FORT JOHNSTON. Fort Johnston (or Johnson), a small, transient fort of the Republic of Texas, was between Coffee's Station and Basin Springs at a site...
Last night I was watching Live PD. A county sheriff from MO pulled over a man for no front plate. I have my own thoughts on such bull scat stops but...
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I have a former Richland LivePD deputy a couple hundred feet away right now getting trained on his new job. He said he was tired of making $35k a...
For all their testing, examinations and investigations, if NASA can't weed out a psycho from the active astronaut corps, how in the world does anyone...
1835 - Coffee's Station, also known as Coffee's Trading Post, was operated by Holland Coffee and associates and occupied several locations on the Red...
FORT CIBOLO. Fort Cibolo is located on Cibolo Creek four miles northwest of Shafter at the southeast end of the Chinati Mountains in central Presidio...
Promises of riches led to the search for fabled cities in early Spanish Texas. Continue reading to discover more about these supposed golden cities....
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Thanks! I get these in emails, and pass them on as soon as I get them.
1835 - On August 23, 1835, while serving as síndico procurador in Nacogdoches, Antonio Menchaca (Manchaca) wrote to Governor Leona Vicario informing...
FORT SMITH. Fort Smith was one of a series of forts established by the Republic of Texas to protect its citizens from Indian attacks. It was located...
1750 - José Vázquez Borrego, pioneer cattle rancher from Coahuila, Mexico, established the first permanent settlement at the site of present Dolores...
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The money for the foundation came from the Moody family business in hotels, banking, and insurance, and that's a Texas historical saga all by itself....
FORT MILAM. The first Fort Milam, on the west bank of the Brazos River in central Falls County, was built in 1834 and called Fort Viesca. In December...
CLARKSVILLE, TEXAS (Red River County). Clarksville, the county seat of Red River County, is at the junction of U.S. Highway 82, State Highway 37, and...
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Nice article. Thanks! Up until last year, I hunted just outside of Clarksville. The owner sold the land. Really good deer hunting in that area. One...
1856 - Fort Lancaster was on the left bank of Live Oak Creek above its confluence with the Pecos River. It is now a state historic site off old U.S....
1789 - Col. Juan de Ugalde was appointed governor of the province of San Francisco de Coahuila in northern New Spain by King Charles III. His primary...
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Wow! Thanks for that tip! I LOVE 99 cent Kindle books!
FORT FITZHUGH. Fort Fitzhugh, three miles southeast of Gainesville, was one in a series of military outposts built from Preston to the Rio Grande for...
Illinois Dem: Sorry About That Mock Trump Assassination Photo at My Fundraiser
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I remember the Dimocraps having a cow after a Republican website used crosshairs over some of their candidates pics, showing which ones were targeted...
1824 - On August 19, 1824, Phillip Singleton, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, received title to a league of land at the mouth...
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