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Cities in Texas
- Austin, TexasOn the 27th of December 1839, the Texas Congress officially incorporated a settlement named Waterloo as the new capital of the Republic of Texas.
- San AntonioOn the 13th of June 1691, a Spanish expedition led by Domingo de Terán and Alonso de León stumbled upon the San Antonio River.
- Fort Worth, TexasOn the 6th of June 1849, Major Ripley A. Arnold established a camp on the bank of the Trinity River and named it Camp Worth in honor of General William…
- Arlington, TexasThe first Texas General Edward H. Tarrant fought Native Americans of the Village Creek settlement on the 24th of May 1841.
- Denton, TexasOn the 8th of July 1860, approximately half of the downtown Square burned down in what was later called the Texas Troubles.
- Frisco, TexasIn 1902, a line of the St. Louis, San Francisco Railway began construction through North Texas. Steam locomotives required periodic watering stops along this…
- HoustonOn the 30th of August 1836, land investors Allen Chapman and John Kirby stood at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou.
- DallasJohn Neely Bryan planted a wooden stake on a bluff near three forks of the Trinity River in 1839. He returned two years later to establish a permanent…
- Mansfield, TexasThe rolling Cross Timbers country of north central Texas received its first wave of European settlers in the 1840s. These pioneer farmers came primarily from…
- Sugar Land, TexasIn 1838, Nathaniel Williams purchased the land that would become Sugar Land from Stephen F. Austin's original Mexican grant.