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...

Attorney Joseph Lee arrived in 1840 to Austin as the three centers of government, city, county and Republic of Texas, were being...

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

On a cold November day in 1838, Mirabeau Lamar discovered the location he desired to establish his empire.