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Austin History Center active. [30] Austin Children's Museum established. [31] Sister city relationship established with Adelaide, Australia. [25] 1984 – St. Michael's Catholic Academy established. 1985 Austin Film Society organized. Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival begins. 1986 Austin Lyric Opera founded.
The first European settlers in the present-day Austin were a group of Spanish friars who arrived from East Texas in July 1730. They established three temporary missions, La Purísima Concepción, San Francisco de los Neches and San José de los Nazonis, on a site by the Colorado River, near Barton Springs.
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520.While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18]
First things first about Austin street names. My Sept. 3 "Austin Answered" column presented a primer of sorts on major east-west and north-south streets that run through the historic core of ...
The big date is sneaking up on us. On March 2, 2036, Texas will celebrate the bicentennial of its independence from Mexico. For its 100th birthday, back in 1936, parties rippled across the state ...
The Austin History Center is the local history collection of the Austin Public Library and the city's historical archive. The building opened as the official Austin Public Library in 1933 and served as the main library until 1979, [ 2 ] when library functions moved to the John Henry Faulk Library, a newer facility next door.
South Point is a census-designated place in Cameron County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,376 at the 2010 census , [ 3 ] up from 1,118 at the 2000 census . Part of the Brownsville–Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area , South Point is the southernmost census designated place in the state of Texas.
Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the May 24, 2022, massacre in the rural South Texas town. An earlier investigation by Texas lawmakers also constructed a timeline of one of the ...