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More than 1,200 years ago, a group of Caddo Indians known as the Hasinai built a village and ceremonial center 26 miles west of present-day Nacogdoches. The site was the southwestern-most ceremonial center for the great Mound Builder culture. Today...
SERVICE AND SACRIFICE The National Museum of the Pacific War State Historic Site grew from its original home as the Nimitz Museum, housed in Fredericksburg’s unique Nimitz Steamboat Hotel built in 1890, to a six-acre complex in the course...
OUTLAWS AND ARCHITECTS Seat of Sutton County, Sonora lays claim to the nearby Devil’s River more readily perhaps than other towns simply because it bestowed the river’s name to its oldest continuing operating business – the Devils...
Hidden Treasures
RADIANT RED Have you ever taken a ride in a 19th century stagecoach? The Texas Brazos Trail community of Anderson delivers your chance. The “Radiant Red”, or Red Concorde Stagecoach, an authentic replica horse-drawn coach, leaves the...
PUMP IT UP! The Hidalgo Pumphouse, built for commercial-scale irrigation in 1909, drew water from the Rio Grande and channeled it to thousands of crop-laden acres nearby. The pumphouse, operated first by steam before coal and electricity followed...
Lubbock Lake National Historic Landmark is a unique archaeological site. It is the only one in North America that has a complete record of nearly 12,000 years of human history located in one place, and uncovered by scientists. It is also a natural...
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