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The well had maintained the ecosystem of the creek since a decline in the number of springs that had fed it. In 1995, plans to revitalize the creek began. Groups such as the Salado Creek Foundation began work to restore the historic significance of the creek as a link of Northern Bexar County to the missions in the South.
From September 1842 to January 7, 1843, Gillespie held the rank of Private in a Texas Rangers company under John Coffee Hays, [3] and participated in the 1842 Battle of Salado Creek. [4] From June 1, 1843, to September 30, 1843, Private Gillespie was part of the Hays Spy Company. [5]
He was a member of Colonel Mathew Caldwell's [13] company in the Council House Fight 1840, the Battle of Plum Creek later in 1840, and in the Battle of Salado Creek (1842). [14] Later he served with Rangers Jack Coffee Hays, Benjamin McCulloch, James Hughes Callahan, and Mason. [15]
Salado Springs is the name of five groups of springs at the town of Salado in Bell County, Texas, in the United States. [1] The springs are located 48 miles (77 km) north of Austin or 135 miles (217 km) south of Dallas. The springs, which are not saline (salado is Spanish for "salty"), were likely named for Salado Creek.
The Stagecoach Inn on Main Street in Salado goes back to 1861. Situated on the Austin to Waco stagecoach line as the Shady Villa Hotel, the old part of the complex was turned into a restaurant in ...
In late summer of 1848 (after Texas had become a U.S. state), a group of La Grange citizens retrieved the remains of the men killed in the Dawson Massacre from their burial site near Salado Creek. These remains, and the remains of the men killed in the failed Mier Expedition , were reinterred in a common tomb in a concrete vault on a bluff one ...
The Fort Myers-based company owns 53,371 acres (21,598.5 hectares) across eight counties in Florida and 48,700 acres (19,708 hectares) of oil, gas and mineral rights in the state.
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