What started as childhood resentment for his dad’s mandatory roadside history stops on family vacations has evolved into a ...
WACO, Texas (KWTX) - More than 17,000 historical markers tell the story of Texas, but time has a way of quieting even the loudest history. As years pass, rust, rain, sun, bullet holes, and neglect can ...
CENTER, Texas — As Delbert Jackson turned right onto the clean, sandy-paved stretch of Martin Luther King Drive, his chin lifted with quiet pride. The road’s upkeep is due in large part to Jackson, ...
Texas may not have much of a middle ground in politics, but it does have a geographic center. It’s in McCulloch County, in ranchland between the towns of Brady and Brownwood, about 140 miles northwest ...
Ennis receives an official Texas historical marker for their fields of beautiful bluebonnets. The City of Ennis is cementing its place in bluebonnet history, which dates back to the 1930s for the town ...
The ship sailed through Sabine Pass in Port Arthur, at the southeast tip of Texas, carrying a group of at least eight Black men, British subjects from Barbados who’d been granted freedom from slavery.
NIGTON COMMUNITY — A northeast Trinity County freedom colony established by former slaves after emancipation is now immortalized with an official Texas Historical Marker. The unveiling ceremony at the ...
The Lone Star State has some pretty fascinating history — and in some instances, it can get pretty strange or even a bit dark. You may even come across historical markers around the state the ...
After intervention from a county judge, a major Texas city won't get a marker honoring its underlooked LGBTQ+ history. According to the Fort Worth Report, Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare squashed a ...
I am doing some research on one of three National Society DAR Alamo Chapter Markers placed in 1936 to mark the original entrances to San Antonio in 1718. We know where two are: One is located at ...