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Jan 23, 2015 · Buffalo Soldiers National Museum is at 3816 Caroline St. in Houston. Closed Sundays. Call 713/942-8920. As Capt. Paul J. Matthews, an Army veteran who founded the museum, explains, “If you were traveling from San Antonio to El Paso in the late 1860s through the 1870s, and you were pinned down by outlaws or warring Native Americans—who would ...
Sep 21, 2023 · Arthur Stillwell planned the town on Sabine Lake as part of his scheme to connect Kansas City to the Texas Gulf with a railroad he founded in 1894. In his Texas Highways story, Patoski recounts this as when “the first Cajuns began moving across the Sabine River in the early 19th century,” with an 1850 U.S. Census counting 600 “Franco ...
Jan 24, 2023 · But Elsa, about 25 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, is where Ro-Tel’s popular canned tomatoes and peppers originated. Though production moved out of state in the late 1990s, the popular brand persists, producing tens of millions of cans each year. Ro-Tel (stylized as RO*TEL on the cans) was founded by Elsa’s Carl Roettele in 1943.
May 2, 2023 · Athens, named after Athens, Greece, was founded in 1850 in East Texas. It became the seat of Henderson County that same year and, nearly a decade later, served as a Civil War headquarters for Confederate military and supply training. Today, the town is known for boating and fishing at nearby Lake Athens, about 5 miles east of town.
Sculptor Jun Kaneko's work on display at Amarillo Museum of Art. Amarillo became regarded for much more than cattle with the establishment of Route 66 in 1926. The city’s population grew to 43,000 from 15,000 between 1920 and 1930. Today, that number is at an all-time high of 201,291, according to the most recent census estimates from July 2022.
Oct 30, 2018 · Although Gonzales was founded in 1825, Sam Houston ordered the townspeople to burn it down during the Texas Revolution of 1836, lest it be used as a base for oncoming Mexican troops. The town was spectacularly rebuilt in the late 1800s by noted architects, including J. Riely Gordon, who designed the Gonzales County Courthouse, and San Antonio ...
Jul 25, 2023 · Published 10 times per year by the Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Highways, the official travel magazine of Texas, encourages travel to and within the Lone Star State and tells the Texas story to readers around the world.
