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Historic Sites!
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REMEMBER TEXAS
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This new booklet reveals there's much more to Texas history than the Alamo!
Remember Texas provides a complete listing of State Historic Sites
and vignettes on 14 of
these sites. Visit prehistoric rock art sites, Republic of Texas-era inns,
frontier forts or the only U.S. battleship to have fought in both world
wars. See the
Official Guide to State Historic Sites. (PDF 871.8 KB)
Archeological Sites:
- Caprock Canyons
- Site of Lake Theo Paleoindian archeological excavation.
Pictograph Sites:
- Big Bend Ranch - Remote examples of transitional-style pictographs.
- Devils River - Remote examples of Lower Pecos style rock painting.
- Hueco Tanks - Unique masks and figures within a massive rock labyrinth.
- Seminole Canyon - World renown rock painting shelters of the Lower Pecos.
Historic Houses and Structures:
- Fanthorp Inn - A stagecoach inn during the Republic and Early Statehood.
- Fort Leaton - Adobe fortress built in 1848, by scalphunter Ben Leaton.
- Goliad - Site of restored Spanish mission, Espiritu Santo de Zuniga.
- Kreische Brewery - Ruins of a unique 1870s German brewery.
- Port Isabel Lighthouse - Mid-19th century beacon for South Texas shipping.
- Sebastopol House - An 1850s Greek Revival house, built of concrete!
- Washington-on-the-Brazos - Independence Hall is the birthplace of the Republic of Texas.
Historic Missions:
Military History:
Frontier Forts
- Fort Richardson - Home of Colonel Ranald Mackenzie's 4th Cavalry.
More information on frontier forts from www.texasbeyondhistory.net/forts/.
Battlegrounds
- San Jacinto Battleground - Where Texas won independence from Mexico.
20th Century
- Battleship TEXAS - Restored dreadnought, veteran of two World Wars.
Commemorative Sites:
- Lipantitlan - Near the sites of an 1835 battle during the Texas Revolution and a Mexican fort of the same name.
- Lyndon B. Johnson - Established in honor of our 36th President, located across the Pedernales River from the Texas White House and LBJ's gravesite in the National Historical Park.
- Monument Hill - The tomb of Texas martyrs, victims of the Battle of Salado (1842) and the notorious "Black Bean Incident" (1843).
- San Jacinto Monument - Tallest monument in US, on site of the famous battle.
- Zaragoza Birthplace - Birthplace of Mexican hero, General Ignacio Zaragoza, who defeated the French at Puebla, Mexico, May 5, 1862.
Living History Sites:
- Sauer-Beckmann Farm at Lyndon B. Johnson - A restored 1918 German farmstead.
- Penn Farm at Cedar Hill - A restored 1950's farm.
- Barrington Living History Farm at Washington-on-the-Brazos - A Reconstructed 1850's farmstead.
Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.):
Below is a listing of T.P.W.D. parks that were built or improved by the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal "make work" program, during the Great Depression in the 1930s and early 1940s.
- Abilene
- Balmorhea
- Bastrop
- Big Spring
- Blanco
- Bonham
- Buescher
- Caddo Lake
- Cleburne
- Daingerfield
- Davis Mountains
- Fort Parker
- Garner
- Goliad
- Goose Island
- Huntsville
- Indian Lodge
- Inks Lake
- Lake Brownwood
- Lake Corpus Christi
- Lake Mineral Wells
- Lockhart
- Longhorn Cavern
- Meridian
- Mission Tejas
- Mother Neff
- Palmetto
- Palo Duro Canyon
- Possum Kingdom
- Tyler
More information on the C.C.C. parks.
Other Special Historic Information from TPWD:
- Buffalo Soldiers Outreach Project & Exploring Texas Roots - An innovative cultural heritage education program targeting inner-city minority youth.
- Military Reenactments, Living History and Other Special Events (updated quarterly) - From the Calendar of Events.
- Texas Longhorns in State Parks - TPWD has the Official State Herd of this Texas legend.