david921866Apr 81 minFayette Smith’s Last BattleOn April 8, 1864, thirty-two-year-old Fayette Smith from Navasota, Texas, was wounded at the Battle of Mansfield in Louisiana. Not his...
david921866Mar 81 minConrad Meuly – 1812-1865Swiss born merchant, Conrad Meuly, came to the Republic of Texas from New York with silk hose, scarves, and bolts of expensive fabrics....
david921866Feb 191 minTexas StatehoodOne hundred seventy-eight years ago, the City of Austin stopped at Noon on February 19, 1846. The town of several hundred residents and...
david921866Feb 92 minAustin LyceumThe Austin Lyceum was granted a charter on February 5, 1841. The first charter issued for a learned society in the Republic of Texas. E....