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The Village Creek area is a stem of the West Fork Trinity River.The stream originates near Cross Timber, Texas, then flows northeast through Arlington, Texas, (including through Lake Arlington, constructed in 1956, beneath which much of the original site of the massacre now lies) before joining the West Fork Trinity River.
Walburg, originally called Concordia, is an unincorporated area located at the crossroads of Farm to Market Road 972 (FM 972) and Farm to Market Road 1105 (FM 1105) in Williamson County, Texas, United States, thirty-three miles northeast of Austin. [1] Walburg is a Texas German settlement named for the birthplace of one of its founders. [2]
The monument of the fallen men of the Dawson Massacre and the ill-fated Mier Expedition.. On September 18, 1848, the remains of Texans killed in the Dawson Massacre and the Black Bean Episode, which had been retrieved from their original burial sites, were reinterred in a common tomb with a sandstone vault at the location now known as Monument Hill.
FM 1639 was designated on May 23, 1951, "officially" running from Texas State Highway 135 (but actually from Farm to Market Road 850) [nb 6] in Overton north to SH 31. On December 20, 1963, FM 1639 was extended about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east-northeast over the former routing of SH 31 to the current SH 31 route.
Real County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,758. [1] The county seat is Leakey. [2] The county is named for Julius Real (1860–1944), a former member of the Texas State Senate. The Alto Frio Baptist Encampment is located in an isolated area of Real County ...
The Neville Ranch raid [1] of the night of March 25, 1918, was the last serious attack on a Texas ranch by Mexican rebels during the Bandit War.Speculation was that Villistas were responsible for the raid in which two people were murdered.
Although the actual town involved in the real story of the "Chicken Ranch" is located a few miles north of Hallettsville on Highway 77, film makers chose the town's historic Lavaca County Courthouse square to serve as backdrop for the city scenes in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the 1982 musical starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton.
The Porvenir massacre was an incident on January 28, 1918, outside the village of Porvenir, in Presidio County, Texas, in which Texas Rangers and local ranchers, with the support of US Cavalry, killed 15 unarmed Mexican American boys and men. [1]: 64 The Texas Rangers Company B had been sent to the area to stop banditry after the Brite Ranch ...