HISTORY: Handbook of Texas Online:"Archeologists have found evidence of Paleo-Indians in the canyon. Spanish explorers made several excursions into the area to take careful inventory of tribes, to note the flora and fauna of the area, and to name the rivers, mountains, and streams. They calle...
HISTORY & profiles: Handbook of Texas Online: "It was founded in compliance with a February 1, 1856, state legislative act establishing Llano County. Tracts donated by John Oatman, Sr., Amariah Wilson, and the Chester B. Starks estate provided a surveyed site of 250 acres for the county ...
HISTORY:Handbook of Texas Online:"Doss is on Mormon Creek nineteen miles northwest of Fredericksburg in northwestern Gillespie County. It was founded in 1849 by brothers John E. and Thomas C. Doss, who built a gristmill and distillery on Threadgill Creek in 1856 and later added a dam and ...
Ghost Towns Discover the deserted, forgotten and abandoned towns of Texas. Some vanished over night while others slowly slipped away. Discover Texas History - Explore Texas As It Was! Search through hundreds of years of Texas history. With tens of thousands of historial markers, photographs, postc...
George H. Sweet
5) thumbprints (Texas Transportation Code, Section 521.142(b)(1), 6) residence address and mailing address, 7) provide answers to medical status and history questions listed on application form. Persons with certain medical limitations may have their cases reviewed by the Texas Medical Advisory ...
History: Jericho's story This region has been inhabited for over 10,000 years and Paleo-Indian Clovis style stone tools have been found in neighboring New Mexico. In historic times, the Comanche and Kiowa roamed the plains hunting buffalo until they were defeated and placed in reservations after...
The people of Texas usually call themselves Texans. However, Texian was generally used in the early period of the state's history. "Texans/Texians" (tek'se-ans) adj. A citizen or the culture of the Texas section of the province of Coahuila y Texas, Republic of Mexico or the subsequent ...
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I could go on and on about these treasures, and I will throughout the year. Today, though, I will end with one that was given to me by a family friend, Millie Rougeau, a few years back. She was the oral-history source for my article “Life in Jefferson County during World War II...