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San Antonio de Béxar, Spanish Texas, Viceroyalty of New Spain: Died: January 13, 1871 (aged 75) San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Nationality: Spanish (1795–1821) Mexican (1821–1836) Texan (1836–1846) American (1846–1861) Confederate (1861–1865) American (1865–1871) Spouse: Margarita de la Garza: Profession: Statesman, revolutionary and ...
Copano (Spanish: El Copano) is a ghost town on the northwestern shore of Copano Bay in Refugio County, Texas. It is located 5 mi (8.0 km) north of present-day Bayside , on Copano Point. The port, which holds the distinction as the first in South Texas , [ 1 ] was founded in the early 18th century by the Spanish, and named for the Copane Indians ...
El Camino Real de los Tejas routes in Spanish Texas. Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, established the corridor for what became El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera in multiple expeditions to East Texas between 1686 and 1690 to find and destroy a French fort near Lavaca Bay, [2] established by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on what de León considered to be Spanish lands.
Las Milpas (Spanish: "the milpas ") is a colonia in the City of Pharr, in central Hidalgo County, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. It was previously an unincorporated area . Las Milpas is located off of U.S. Highway 281 , 5 miles (8.0 km) south of the city center of Pharr, [ 1 ] and between McAllen and the United States-Mexico border .
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1910 and 1919. ... Jose Buenrostro: Hispanic: 25: M: 19-May-1916: Murder 377: Clarence ...
The only portion of SH 1 that existed after September 26, 1939, was a short spur located in Dallas. Texas State Highway 1 was officially cancelled on August 20, 1952. Due to the highway's historic value, a highway cannot be designated as State Highway 1 unless by the order of TxDOT Executive Director or by the Transportation Commission. [3]
James Hutto was born in Alabama on June 8, 1824; he came to Texas in 1847 and moved his family to Williamson County in 1855. A slave, Adam Orgain, was the first person to live in the immediate Hutto vicinity, having been placed out on the Blackland prairie by his owner to watch after the cattle and livestock holdings.
Las Yescas is an unincorporated community in Cameron County, Texas, United States. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas , the community had a population of 221 in 2000. It is located within the Rio Grande Valley and the Brownsville-Harlingen metropolitan area .