An interactive map showing the location of all ... back behind the Rio Grande River. On May 14, 1836, Texas officially became an independent republic. Texas joined the Union in 1845.

That cultural diversity has led to some unusual sounding town names with weird spellings, looking at you Pflugerville. Even in East Texas, we have a couple of towns that could be commonly ...

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Texas was once bigger than it knew. In December 1836 the Texas Congress, heady from victory against Mexico, claimed the republic’s boundaries included “the mouth of the Rio Grande, thence up ...

Delegates from each Texas municipality convened March 1, 1836, in an unfinished-frame building ... independence from Mexico and established the Republic of Texas. This would lead to the fall ...

DOJ drops fight against Texas political maps as Trump administration retreats from voting rights cases ...

On March 2, 1836, the first Texans declared independence from Mexico, and the Republic of Texas formed. Now, 189 years later, Dairy Queen is helping celebrate Texas Independence Day with a Texas ...

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Across the state, people remember the day Texas declared its independence from Mexico. For the Stone Fort Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and the ...

The Runaway Scrape, an arduous evacuation of a panicked sea of humanity fleeing eastward during Santa Anna’s 1836 Texas campaign, has been overshadowed by stories of the Alamo and San Jacinto.

Culpepper Cattle Co., which has a location in Deep Ellum's Continental Gin Building, is offering specials on margaritas.(Kayla Enright) Texas Independence Day, which marks the adoption of the ...