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Cross Timbers Historic Images Project

Collection of 19th and 20th century historic images from the Cross Timbers area of Central Texas, including but not limited to Erath County, Hamilton County, Hood County, Somervell County, Palo Pinto County, and Comanche County. The Cross Timbers Historic Images Project is done in cooperation with the Dick Smith Library at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas.

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Texas

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.

Ghost Towns of Texas

King's Highway Project - El Camino Réal de los Tejas

From the Texas Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.

Links - Texas State Historical Association

Lone Star Junction: A Texas Almanac

Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas

For the study and dissemination of information about the DeWitt Colony in the period 1700-1846.

Texas Almanac

From the Texas State Historical Association.

Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program

From the Texas Historical Commission. Project to preserve and protect this historic courthouses of Texas.

Texas History Timeline

Texas Landmarks & Vanished Communities

Interactive Listing of Texas Landmarks including cemeteries, vanished communities, and others for genealogy researchers.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - Historic Sites and Exhibits

The Forty Eighters

From the Handbook of Texas Online. Oriented towards Texas Germans but interesting general information on this immigrant group.

The Handbook of Texas Online

A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association. More than 23,000 articles.

The McArdle Notebooks - Texas State Library

Henry McArdle's battle paintings, Dawn at the Alamo and The Battle of San Jacinto, have become Texas icons. The painstaking detail of the paintings was reflected in exhaustive research. McArdle's notebooks are packed with letters, notes, and photographs documenting the paintings and the events they depict.

The Portal to Texas History

The Portal is a gateway to Texas history materials. You may discover anything from an ancestor's picture to a rare historical map. From prehistory to the present day, you can explore unique collections from Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, genealogical societies, and private family collections. The Portal continues to grow as additional partners contribute digital versions of their collections.

The Turnverein Movement

From the Handbook of Texas Online. Oriented towards Texas Germans but interesting general information on these German social clubs.

Victoria County Brands

Ranchers' names with examples of brands for 1838-1896 from Victoria County, Texas.

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