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Dec 11, 2020 · Texas History: Time-traveling back to the first capital of Spanish Texas. Michael Barnes. Austin American-Statesman. 0:04. 0:26. Los Adaes, first capital of the province of Tejas, was...
Jan 27, 2021 · Spanish Fort is located in north central Montague County at the end of Farm Road 103 one mile south of the Red River. Spanish Fort began in the eighteenth century as a fortified Taovaya Indian settlement, misnamed later by Anglo settlers who found Spanish artifacts and ruins of a fort near the site.
Jan 1, 1996 · Updated: April 2, 2019. Spanish Mapping of Texas. Early in 1520 the pilots who had sailed the previous year with Alonso Álvarez de Pineda laid before the Spanish crown an outline sketch of the Gulf of Mexico. This crude rendering, which survives in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, represents the beginning of the Spanish mapping of Texas.
