Mapping Texas Barbecue History In the 1800s, smokehouses and BBQ pits popped up all over Texas, ... Sanborn maps were produced for towns all over Texas in the late 1800s, ...

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AUSTIN — After 173 years, a historic Texas map has come into official hands. Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush has announced that an 1844 map of the Republic of Texas by noted early-day ...

WASHINGTON-ON-THE-BRAZOS — The highlight of my overnight Texas history trip to Washington-on-the Brazos and nearby Brenham was a “living history farm,” the Barrington Plantation at ...

The usually calm waters of Matagorda Bay on the Texas Gulf Coast hold the secret of a once thriving town that was literally washed off the map by not one, but two deadly hurricanes. Indianola, in ...

The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum (PPHM) has told the story of Texas settlers for almost a century. At West Texas A&M University, we believe the PPHM, while important to our region, is even ...

The thriving Texas town that literally vanished from the maps In 1886, Indianola was devastated by a hurricane so strong that it became a ghost town virtually overnight. To stream KVUE on your ...