Mona’s Yacht Club / Camp Pedernales in Spicewood, Texas was a special kind of place. It was located on the Old Ferry Road where the road...

On April 14, 1841, Elnora Van Cleve was born in a cabin near Sixth and Congress in Austin, Texas. She would be recorded as the first...

While researching my earliest ancestors in Texas, I discovered a series of letters in the archives of “The Center for American History at...