Marker Text: (site one-fourth mile south) A stockade and blockhouse of the Republic of Texas. Built in 1835-1836 to protect settlers who founded Houston, a pioneer town, now in Anderson County. Friendly Indians would come to trade at the site, but wary settlers often slept inside the 25-...
Travel every mile of the border with an interactive digital map that includes 360-degree video and shows all border fencing.
For those that have never visited, Texas can quickly become a caricature of itself thanks to its larger-than-life personality. Yes, everything is bigger in Texas. Yet, what has made it such a fascinating destination is that behind the curtain is a state
So you’ve sourced the perfect shapefile covering US Counties with demographic and population data, and some neat geographic information like the square mile area of land and water for each county. Now, you’re ready to make a web map of sales data for Texas or add the data to your onlin...
Marine Sulphur Queen, a 19-year-old, 7,200-ton (6,532 metric tons) oil tanker was bound for Norfolk, Virginia from Beaumont, Texas carrying 15,000 tons of molten sulfur in heated tanks. But it never reached its destination. Unlike some of the other vanished craft in the Bermuda ...
Marine Sulphur Queen, a 19-year-old, 7,200-ton (6,532 metric tons) oil tanker was bound for Norfolk, Virginia from Beaumont, Texas carrying 15,000 tons of molten sulfur in heated tanks. But it never reached its destination. Unlike some of the other vanished craft in the Bermuda ...
Otherworldly sandstone monuments, multicolored hot springs that have to be seen to be believed, craggy coastlines, scorching deserts strewn with iconic cacti – it’s all here in the best national parks in America. Map of National Parks in the USA © OpenStreetMap 25. Big Bend (Texas)[...
Mapping Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Star State, which opened on 20 April at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas, “traces the cartographic history of Texas from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries” through a small (26 item) collection ...