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Incorporated in 1996, the Friends of the Texas Historical Commission (FTHC) is a 501c(3) tax exempt nonprofit organization, further designated as a 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A0(vi) Public Charity, whose purpose is to develop private philanthropic resources to assist the Texas Historical Commission with its mission to identify, preserve, and ...
The grant was issued as the Fisher–Miller Land Grant. The contract was renewed on September 1, 1843 by the Republic of Texas House of Representatives. The Fisher–Miller Land Grant [ 6 ] consisted of 3,878,000 acres over 5,000 square miles [ 7 ] between the Llano River and Colorado River , in the heart of the Comancheria .
Peters Colony [1] (Peters' Colony) is a name applied to four empresario land grant contracts first by the Republic of Texas and then the State of Texas for settlement in North Texas. The contracts were signed by groups of American and English investors originally headed by William Smalling Peters. [ 2 ]
The Texas Historical Commission on Friday granted State Antiquities Landmark status to the University Junior High School building – a 91-year-old building most recently home to the University of ...
Lester G. Bugbee in his article "The Old Three Hundred", published in The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association (October 1897), identifies the head of each of the Old Three Hundred families who received a land grant in Austin's colony. [11] They were:
Properties and/or districts are listed in most of Texas's 254 counties. The tables linked below are intended to provide a complete list of properties and districts listed in each county. The locations of National Register properties and districts with latitude and longitude data may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates".
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas' High Plains. The High Plains region is an area of 41 counties defined by the Texas Comptroller for economic reporting in 2022, as mapped here .
The following are lists in a series of Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks (RTHLs) arranged by county as designated by the Texas Historical Commission and local county historical commissions in Texas. Purchase and display of a historical marker is a required component of the RTHL designation process.