Popular Destinations
BONES TO TUNES The history of South Texas runs deep and wide, challenging the best of institutions to explore the region's entire dramatic arc. Edinburg's Museum of South Texas History succeeds in mastering the challenge by educating...
WOMEN IN AVIATION In early 1943, as World War II raged on, several different plans to utilize female aviators to help perform pilot duties (everything except combat) were consolidated at Avenger Field in Sweetwater. Known as the WASP (Women...
Get your kicks on this popular stretch of the inconic American highway! The U.S. Route 66–Sixth Street Historic District comprises 13 blocks of commercial development in the San Jacinto Heights Addition west of Amarillo’s central...
Hidden Treasures
HOME TO FIVE THOUSAND PRISONERS OF WAR During the Second World War, the United States established prisoner of war camps throughout the country including seventy camps in Texas, housing approximately 50,000 captured enemy soldiers. Five thousand...
In October 1835, the rising tension between the Mexican government and Texian settlers exploded into violence – and it happened near this spot. Like a slowly simmering fire, General Santa Anna’s distrust of the Texian settlers is...
Freedman's Cemetery, as the name suggests, belonged to a community of former slaves established in this area after the Civil War. Dedicated in 1869, the cemetery closed in the 1920s and suffered from both neglect and vandalism. In the 1930s-40s...
