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Spanish Fort is an unincorporated community in north-central Montague County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas , the community had a population of 50 in 2000. History
From the Convent of Querétaro, several expeditions were organized to the region of Texas, an area of great strategic importance to the Spanish crown.With that goal, in 1675 an expedition formed by Fray Antonio de Olivares, Fray Francisco Hidalgo, Fray Juan Larios, and Fernando del Bosque was sent to explore and describe the country beyond the Rio Grande, to test the possibilities of new ...
This list of cemeteries in Texas includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
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Content related to cemeteries located in the U. S. State of Texas which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (the United States' official national heritage register) and other listed properties that include places of interment: graveyards, burial plots, crypts, mausoleums, or tombs.
The Spanish established many missions, while the French built and moved Fort St. Louis many times. A few simple fortifications were established in this era to protect both French and Spanish claims from each other, and to protect expeditionary operations from unwelcoming local inhabitants.
Fort McKavett was established during the American colonization of Texas, [1] a process that began in the 1820s with the immigration of Anglo-Americans into Spanish, later Mexican, Texas. [2] Europeans first reached the San Saba River valley, in central Texas, in the 17th century, when the Spanish Empire established contact with the Jumano people.
La Grange (Fayette County): "A little settlement had grown up around (Moore's Fort) by 1831, and the town was platted in 1837," write Blevins, Permenter and Bigley. "At the same time, the county ...