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Bernardo
Bernardo was Texas' first and largest plantation during the colonial and Republic period. Jared Groce, his family, and the large contingent of enslaved African Americans made this the most successful economic enterprise in Austin's Colony. Events that occurred at Bernardo shaped the course of Texas history. This book presents the story of Bernardo, its people, and of the archaeological project that uncovered its buried remains.
Settlement in the Forks of Mill Creek
This book describes the settlement of the land in the lower forks of Mill Creek in Austin County, Texas. Originally selected by Stephen F. Austin as payment for his second colonization contract with Mexico, the initial settlers were American immigrants from the southern states and their slaves who operated cotton plantations. After the Civil War the land became a focus for the early Czech settlers to Texas, and became a springboard for their descendants to move to other parts of the state. The primary community on the area is Nelsonville, founded in 1865.
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The Millheim and Cat Spring Pioneers
This book is a continuation of an effort began in 2015 by a handful of individuals with an interest in the history of the German settlements at Cat Spring and Millheim in Austin County, Texas. Three of the early literary works by Millheim settlers have been republished — Experiences and Observations and A History of Austin County by William Andreas Trenckmann, and A Boy’s Civil War Story by Charles Nagel. Obscure books, newspaper and periodical articles, literary novels and plays written about the area by former residents a century or so ago have been identified. An inventory of all such documents and their current status as to public availability has been developed. This book presents a...
Austin County
Austin County was the center focal point of the Mexican state of Texas from 1822 to 1836. Stephen F. Austin selected his namesake town of San Felipe de Austin on the banks of the Brazos River in 1823 to be the headquarters of his enterprise, Austin's Colony, that settled hundreds of American families in what had been a Spanish wilderness. Many of the early chapters of Texas history were written here. Mexicans in 1828 knew San Felipe as the "spark" that would later cost them Texas. Fully one-quarter of the men who fought in the Texian Revolution called Austin County home. Hundreds of thousands of today's Texans of German and Czech heritage can trace their ancestor's first homes in America to ...
Pleasant Bend
Today’s Greater Houston is a vast urban place. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, Houston was a small town – a dot in a vast frontier. Extant written histories of Houston largely confine themselves to the small area within the city limits of the day, leaving nearly forgotten the history of large rural areas that later fell beneath the city’s late twentieth century urban sprawl. One such area is that of upper Buffalo Bayou, extending westward from downtown Houston to Katy. European settlement here began at Piney Point in 1824, over a decade before Houston was founded. Ox wagons full of cotton traveled across a seemingly endless tallgrass prairie from the Brazos River east to Harris...
The Alcalde
As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."
