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Historic Sites!

Take a cybertrip around our great State of Texas, visiting those legendary places that have made our cultural heritage world renowned.

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:

• Mission Espiritu Santo
• Mission Rosario

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.

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.

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