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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]
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.
It had no near neighbors and the lower ranch complex, where the attack occurred, had no telephone. Neville had lived there with his wife and 5 children, but after Brite Ranch raid he had moved his wife, Anna, his son, Thomas and three daughters, Edith, Grace, and Lois to a home in Van Horn. The day of the raid he was on the ranch with only his ...
The Spanish reinforced the presidio with soldiers from San Antonio, and defeated Perry's forces on June 18 near Coleto Creek. [17] 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 Raid on the Norias Division of the King Ranch was an attack August 8, 1915 by a large band of disaffected Mexicans and Tejanos in southern Texas.It was one of the many small battles of the Mexican Revolution that spilled over into United States soil and resulted in an increased effort by the United States Army to defend the international border.
Runge is located in eastern Karnes County at (28.885172, –97.712769), [5] along Texas State Highway Kenedy is 10 miles (16 km) to the southwest, and Yorktown is 15 miles (24 km) to the northeast.
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 ...