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Texas Critter from 1968 Texas Official Highway Dept map.

Compliments of
Tx Dept. of Transportation official road map 1968

Texas Facts and Symbols

Here are a few Texas facts and symbols for your reading pleasure.
STATE CAPITAL: Austin: Travis county
State Capital Building constructed of Texas Pink Granite
STATE NAME: From "Tejas," an Indian greeting meaning , Friend"
Spanish pronunciation adopted from the CADDO's HASINAI Indian Confederacy
Tay - has meaning "friend"
STATE MOTTO: Friendship = "Be Friendly" or "Drive Friendly"
STATE NICKNAME: "Lone Star State" or "The Friendship State"
STATE BIRD: Mockingbird
STATE TREE: Pecan
STATE FLOWER: BlueBonnet
STATE GRASS: Side oats
STATE GEM: Topaz
STATE STONE: Petrified Wood (unofficial); Officially, Palmwood
STATE ANIMALS (Mammals <g>) : Buffalo [(Republic of Texas Land Office) (1836)] , Longhorn (1933) unofficial) the Jack Rabbit; and Armadillo (1987)
STATE Reptile; officially, Horned Lizard; unofficial; Diamondback Rattle snake
STATE SONG: Texas, Our Texas - Lone Star Junction
FLAGS Over Texas: More than six flags have flown over the Texas Empire
but here is a link The Six Flags Over Texas Lone Star Junction
which features the 6 majors flags.

9 years a REPUBLIC STATE: March 6, 1836

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
USA
Admitted to Union: December 29, 1845 - 28th State
sm Confederate ?States flag deginged by SKC3 Designs

CONFEDERATE STATES of AMERICA
CSA.
Secedes from Union, February 23, 1861
Civil War
A Defeated but Proud Nation: May 30, 1865,
Last battle was a Confederacy victory
at the Palmetto Ranch near Brownville, Texas
but lost the War, April 30, 1865.
RECONSTRUCTION ENDED
After Loyalty Pledge was signed
and readmitted into the Union.
March 30, 1870

2 rebel soliers holding an Conferate States of American flag

Flag of the Confederate States of America (CSA)!
Five Years....A Nation
The Flower Lady's blue bonnets

States who were once part of the Texas Empire. 1. Panhandle of Oklahoma ALHN (tm)
2. Eastern Colorado
3. Eastern and Southeastern New Mexico LHN (tm) The Flower Lady's blue bonnets

a Texas rattler
"Don't Mess With Texas!"
TexAnna Crocker's Motto
Borrowed from the Texas Department of Transportation
Litter motto 2000

LINK TO US

This bullet marks the sites that I host.
We invite you to add your link to our independant Texas Local History Network, or add your information to our counties sites. This site is a charter member State of theAmerica Local History Network Incorporated. To add a link, email me your url and page title. I will add it either to the TxALHN Topic or county sites or both.
Ya'll come and link to us! Click here to email TexAnna

Confederate Jounals logo
A Proposal for Preservation and Distribution

Professors Joseph T. Glatthaar (Department of History) and Michael S. Parks (Department of Decision and Information Sciences) of the University of Houston.
This Texas Confederate Journal Project Proposal is designed to generate interest in providing easily accessible historical and genealogical information on Texas and Texas soldiers during the War Between The States. The best resource site for all of TEXAS CONFEDERATE VETERANS' Records that I have found on the Internet. (emc)
<http://www.cba.uh.edu/~parks/tex/texreb.htm>

Another Great Civil War Resource Site:
Randy's TEXANS IN THE CIVIL WAR
Regimental histories, muster rolls, biographies, graves
and cemeteries.
Web Master: Randy Howald

Public Service Announcement
The Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery Descendant Project

http://home.pacifier.com/~karenl/lewis&.htm is the Lewis & Clark project page.
Clatsop County Genealogical Society @ http://www.pacifier.com/~karenl
Pacific County Genealogical Society @ http://www.pacifier.com/~uniqhorn

"Notice"

Texas Almanac published by the Dallas Morning News.
Thank you! Ms. Mary G. Ramos, Editor, Texas Almanac.
e-mail mramos@texasalmanac.com
P. O. Box: 655237
Dallas, Texas, 75265
214 - 977-8120
Fax - 214 - 977 - 8120
For allowing me to use their older publications of 1952/53 edition of "The Texas Almanac; I am placing this recipient link to their page for a more current information on Texas for you, the researchers behalf , since my site is featuring Texas History before 1990.
How reliable are these facts, is unknown other than who or where the sources came.
Each generation or State Legislature seems to have changed History either verbal or written to suit their personal or political needs.
Eveline M. <TexAnn > Crocker:
Administrator and Web Master of TxALHN:

A Little Bit About Me:
photo of WAC PFC Eveyn Crocker Bean
Eveline M. Crocker
aka TexAnna
Army WAC AMEDS. VET.
Cold War Recognition Certificate and Medal
Army Good Conduct Medal
Medical Specialist
Surg.. & Orthopedic Service
Wm. Beaumont Army Hosp.
Fort Bliss, Texas
Korea Cold War Era

U. S. CIVIL SERVICE
Cold War Recognition Certificate and Medal
NURSING ASSIST.
MED. & SURG..
AFSC, AFMDC, 6580TH USAF HOSPITAL, MDHH
HOLLOMAN AFB, NEW MEXICO
1968 - Viet Nam Cold War Era.