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The early maps created by the first professional draftsmen of the GLO's drafting department helped form the foundation for the agency's present-day archival collections. #SaveTXHistory
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Born in Kentucky but best known in Texas, Oliver Loving (1812–1867) was a pioneering cowboy who blazed the Goodnight-Loving Trail alongside his partner Charles Goodnight. #SaveTXHistory
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James Earl Rudder was a World War II veteran who served in the D-Day invasion of Normandy eighty years ago today. The proud Texas Aggie became Land Commissioner at a time of great unrest and uncertainty at the agency. #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/Viyn10tH77
The Republic of Texas granted public lands to establish private institutions as an innovative solution to the education challenge of providing education in Texas. https://t.co/gZFzsx1fep #SaveTXHistory
Texans have a particular reason to celebrate Cinco de Mayo — the victorious Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza was a Texan by birth, and the @TXGLO records trace his family history in Texas. #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/plQxaTBULF
Alfonso Steele was the longest-surviving combatant of the Battle of San Jacinto at the time of his death on July 8, 1911. His story is told in part through the land records and maps in the @TXGLO Archives. #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/ZtGZ76lsyv
On this day in Texas history. #SaveTXHistory
First published in 1847, this 1855 edition is one of several German-language maps of North America that promoters used to encourage immigration to Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. #MapMonday #SaveTXHistory
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On this day in 1835, the cannon fired at the Battle of Gonzales ignited the Texas Revolution and set in motion the events leading to Texas' independence. #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/NHkwcRRoL6
During Hispanic Heritage Month, Texans celebrate the tapestry that defines our state. On Sept. 16th, 1810, Padre Miguel Hidalgo rang the church bells and issued a call to action encouraging Mexicans to free themselves from European rule. #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/tPrAU7FSNM
Sylvia Smith Talkington of CO, worked with GLO staff to donate & digitize the Bull Family Collection of letters in memory of her mother, Lola C. Smith Crites, who worked diligently to compile the collection of early Texas correspondence. #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/3KM9LCtOvQ
At this year’s #SaveTXHistory Symposium, Dr. Amy Porter’s presentation, “Las Béxareñas and Their Wills: Women’s Material Culture Cataloguing Practices in Spanish San Fernando de Béxar,” will provide insight into how women adapted to life in the borderland. https://t.co/83QOtEs85h
Mission San Antonio de Valero, better known as the Alamo, served as a place of community for the region's Indigenous population. This document outlines a compromise between the mission and residents of the town of San Fernando de Béxar. #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/M0V180VPkL
Join us for our #ThrowbackThursday, Alonso Steele, the longest-surviving combatant of the Battle of San Jacinto at the time of his death on July 8, 1911. #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/ZtGZ76kUIX
Josiah Pugh Wilbarger, for whom Wilbarger County in north-central Texas and Wilbarger Creek near Austin are named, was a pioneer whose experiences personified the thrilling and hazardous life on the Texas frontier.
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The GLO Archives is a treasure trove of primary source material for genealogists, helping researchers establish a time and place for their ancestors’ arrival in Texas. #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/OadLbaGlS2
Houston Heights, one of the first planned communities in Texas and Houston’s first suburb, promised to be “a new field of enterprise worthy of close cultivation by the Home-seeker and Capitalist.” #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/BWvkJ6yc08
Houston Heights, one of the first planned communities in Texas and Houston’s first suburb, promised to be “a new field of enterprise worthy of close cultivation by the Home-seeker and Capitalist.” #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/BWvkJ6yc08
Few Texans of the colonial era could boast of having entered a dungeon of the Holy Office of the Inquisition. By extraordinary fate, empresario Stephen F. Austin did so twice. Learn more about his imprisonment in Mexico City: #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/WvEWB2jR1g
The GLO's Spanish Collection can be used to explore topics sometimes only loosely related to land grants. Some of these documents require us to delve deeper into the political context of Mexico in the tumultuous years of the 1820s and 1830s. #SaveTXHistory https://t.co/nL2tMIqFiY
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