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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]
Recreational Road 11 connects FM 1929 to a recreational area on the O.H. Ivie Reservoir. The highway begins at an intersection with FM 1929, south of the O. H. Ivie Reservoir, as a two-lane, paved road. RE 11 proceeds northward, passing through rural area on a large peninsula and intersecting a few private ranch roads.
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.
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.
The area was invaded again in 1821. The United States and Spain had signed the Adams–Onís Treaty in 1819, which ceded all US territorial claims on the Texas area to Spain. On October 4, the Long Expedition (with 52 members) captured La Bahia.
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 ...
Kingsland is located in eastern Llano County at the confluence of the Colorado and the Llano rivers, which combine to form Lake Lyndon B. Johnson.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 9.8 square miles (25.4 km 2), of which 9.0 square miles (23.4 km 2) are land and 0.8 square miles (2.0 km 2), or 7.96%, are water.
The raid on Glenn Springs occurred on the night of May 5–6, 1916, when Mexican Villistas and Carrancistas attacked the towns of Boquillas and Glenn Springs, Texas.In Glenn Springs, the raiders burned several buildings and fought a three-hour battle with a small force of American soldiers who were stationed there.