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Marker sponsor, Kameron Searle, would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Bernice Mistrot for the many hours of help and advice that she has provided over the last two years with regard to the whole Anson Jones marker project. Searle acknowledges that he would never have completed his work on this long-overdue tribute to Anson Jones without Bernice Mistrot’s untiring assistance and encouragement. She is a true asset to the Harris County Historical Commission and all of those sincerely desiring to preserve the true history of Texas.
H C H C M R C C Bernice Mistrot
H C H C M Gina Bouchard
M F S San Jacinto Descendants
With deepest appreciation to the San Jacinto Descendants for providing the funding and support for the marker to be created and placed in Glenwood Cemetery.
222 P C Bernice Mistrot, Harris County Historical Commission Debra Blacklock Sloan, Harris County Historical Commission Kameron Kent Searle, J.D., President, Texas Heritage Society Melinda R. Cagle, Texas Heritage Society Brenda Horton, Texas Heritage Society David Martin, Texas Heritage Society Carole Lynn O’Neal, Texas Heritage Society Marisa Searle, Texas Heritage Society Pat Spackey, Texas Heritage Society Carolyn Terrell, Texas Heritage Society Loy Anderson, Glenwood Cemetery Bonnie Ambrus, Glenwood Cemetery
222 C Dr. and Mrs. Carrol Dean Cagle Mrs. Steve Horton Mrs. Jerry O’Neal Mr. and Mrs. Kameron Kent Searle Mr. and Mrs. Ted Spackey Mrs. Carolyn Terrell "e Texas Heritage Society, Inc. 222 Cover : Anson Jones. bef. "#$%. steel-engraved front-piece portrait, artist unknown. Anson Jones, Memoranda and O#cial Correspondence Relating to the Republic of Texas, Its History and Annexation. Including a Brief Autobiography of the Author. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 346 & 348 Broadway, 1859. provided by Kameron K. Searle, J.D. 4 ANSON JONES (J ANUARY 20, 1798 - J ANUARY 9, 1858) submitted by Kameron K. Searle, J.D . Houston, Texas ( 2008)
I. CONTEXT
r. Anson Jones fought bravely as a private in New Orleans to Brazoria, Texas. 8 When he arrived in Dthe Battle of San Jacinto when the Texans Texas, Jones had $17.00 in his pocket. 9 In Brazoria, won their independence from Mexico. 1 Usually, Jones’ medical practice met with great /nancial that alone would have been enough for someone success. By 1834, he was earning $5,000 a year. 10 to qualify to be remembered with an o(cial Texas Anson Jones had become a Mason in Philadelphia, State Historical Marker. But, Jones did so much Pennsylvania. 11 In March 1835, near Brazoria Texas, more. As James M. Day, the great Texas historian Jones was one of six Master Masons who met under and former Director of the Texas State Archives, put the “Masonic Oak” to undertake the establishment it, “)e next decade of [Anson] Jones’ life belonged of the /rst regularly-formed Masonic lodge in to the Republic he aided in birth and buried at its Texas. 12 Application was made to the Grand Lodge demise.” 2 During that decade, Anson Jones worked of Louisiana for a dispensation to form and open tirelessly to bring about the annexation of Texas by a Masonic lodge. 13 Under a special dispensation, the United States, earning him the much-deserved Holland Lodge No. 36 was opened on December 27, title: “Architect of Annexation.” 3 1835 in Brazoria, Texas with Anson Jones presiding If this still were not enough, many of Jones’ as the Worshipful Master. 14 )e formal charter contributions to the society and culture of Texas granted to Holland Lodge #36 by the Grand Lodge continue to reverberate through time right up to the of Louisiana was delivered to Anson Jones just before present day. Often when new construction is begun the Battle of San Jacinto and was carried in his and cement is poured for a new project, people will saddlebags during the battle. 15 place their hands in the wet cement to make their Anson Jones joined the Texas Army in 1836 and mark. From the Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas to served as Judge Advocate and Surgeon of the Second the Texas Medical Association, the handprints of Regiment. 16 Jones fought as a private in Sidney Anson Jones, the last president of Texas, can still be Sherman’s Second Regiment in the Battle of San seen all over the great State of Texas. Jacinto on April 21, 1836. 17 Anson Jones’ Donation Land Grant provides the following information: II. OVERVIEW “Republic of Texas. Know all men. To whom these presents shall come: )at Anson Jones having fought Anson Jones, the son of Solomon and Sarah Jones, bravely in the Battle of San Jacinto on the 20 th and was born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, 21 st of 1836 is entitled to six hundred and forty acres Massachusetts on January 20, 1798. 4 Jones studied of Donation Land, in accordance with the Act of medicine as an apprentice in Utica, New York and Congress, passed December 21, 1837.” 18 was licensed by the Oneida Medical Society in 1820. 5 Following the Battle of San Jacinto, Jones provided Later, he received his M.D. degree from Je*erson medical care to the wounded Texian soldiers in the Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in home of Vice President Lorenzo de Zavala on the March 1827. 6 other side of Bu*alo Bayou. 19 Jones did not meet with great success in his medical Jones returned to his medical practice in Brazoria practice nor in his business interests in the United following the Texas Revolution. 20 Shortly thereafter, States. 7 In October 1833 Anson Jones set sail from he was elected to the House of Representatives from
5 Brazoria to the Second Congress of the Republic of the formal and absolute withdrawal of the proposition of Texas in 1837. 21 annexation of Texas to the United States.” 31 On December 20, 1837, Texas Masons convened Anson Jones’ second move in his strategy to gain in Houston to organize the Grand Lodge of Texas. 22 annexation was immediately begun. Now that Jones President Sam Houston presided over this meeting had made it clear that annexation was completely held in the Senate Chamber of the Republic of Texas, o* the table, Jones loudly publicized this fact to the which elected Anson Jones as the /rst Grand Master Europeans. )e strategy was now to gain recognition of Masons in Texas. 23 Following the establishment of the Republic of Texas from the Europeans, of the Grand Lodge of Texas, Holland Lodge especially Great Britain and France. Over the #36 which had been relocated to Houston was re- next few years, Jones (as Minister Plenipotentiary, chartered as Holland Lodge #1. 24 Holland Lodge #1 Secretary of State and President of the Republic) is still located in Houston and has been a working would use the French and particularly the English to lodge ever since. 25 A statue of Anson Jones honoring make many in the United States government at /rst his memory has been on view in the main lobby of jealous and later paranoid. 32 Holland Lodge #1 for many decades. Jones wrote, “A very favorable character was given On December 5, 1837, a group of gentlemen to our diplomatic intercourse with both France and met in the Capitol in Houston, Texas to organize England. )e latter rati/ed the Treaty with Texas and )e Philosophical Society of Texas. 26 Anson Jones the rati/cations were exchanged at London. In due was one of the twenty-six charter members of )e time a British Consul, Consul General and Minister Philosophical Society of Texas. 27 )ese twenty-six were appointed and sent to Texas.” 33 As Jones later constituted a large portion of the professional and wrote, “A jealousy and rivalry began to exist between political talent of Texas: Mirabeau B. Lamar, Ashbel the U. States on the one hand, and Great Britain and Smith, )os. J. Rusk, Wm. H. Wharton, Joseph France on the other, in relation to Texas, and it was Rowe, Angus McNeill, A. C. Allen, G. W. Bonnell, not her policy to endeavor to abate or suppress it.” 34 Joseph Baker, Patrick C. Jack, W. Fairfax Gray, Jno. Having fought the British again so recently in the War A. Wharton, D. S. Kaufman, Jas. Collinsworth, of 1812, the United States was fearful of England’s Anson Jones, Littleton Fowler, A. C. Horton, J. W. growing relationship with Texas on the United States’ Bunton, Edward T. Branch, Henry Smith, Hugh southwestern border. McLeod, T. Je*erson Chambers, Sam Houston, In 1839, upon his return from his activities in and R. A. Irion. 28 )e original draft of its by-laws, Washington D.C., Jones found that he had been signed by the charter members, is in the San Jacinto elected Senator from Brazoria. He would serve as Museum of History. 29 senator in the Fourth and Fifth Congresses of the In 1838, Sam Houston, during his /rst term as Republic of Texas. 35 President, appointed Anson Jones to be the Minister On May 17, 1840, Anson Jones married Mary Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Texas to the Smith McCrory in Austin, Texas. 36 It is interesting to United States of America. 30 )ough Texans were note that Mrs. Anson Jones was later elected the /rst almost unanimous for annexation, there were many president of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. 37 opponents to the annexation of Texas in the United In 1841, during Sam Houston’s second term as States. Jones went to Washington D.C. and began President, Houston appointed Anson Jones Secretary of a brilliant diplomatic strategy for the annexation of State of the Republic of Texas. 38 Jones served as Secretary Texas by the United States. of State of the Republic of Texas from 1841 to 1844. Surprisingly the /rst move in his strategy was to After 1842, there were no more “predatory incursions” make it clear to the United States that Texas no longer into Texas by Mexico. 39 )e United States’ position on considered annexation an option. On October 12, 1838, annexation began to change rapidly at this point. in a letter to Mr. Vail, the Acting Secretary of State of the As Jones wrote, “In the summer of 1843 a truce United States, Jones wrote: “)e undersigned, minister was obtained of Mexico and existed for some time. plenipotentiary of the republic of Texas, therefore, in Texas and Mexico appointed commissioners for the accordance with his instructions, has the honor to purpose of /xing the conditions of a permanent announce to the Secretary of State of the United States armistice to last while negotiations for peace could
6 be carried on. )is cessation of hostilities appeared health information to the public. )e rules page of to have been procured by the in>uence of the French the Anson Jones, M.D. awards provides the following and British ministers at Mexico, and when known to information and history: “Anson Jones, MD, a the U. States accompanied by the “Alarming facts” pioneer Texas physician, served the Republic of Texas and “Astounding Development and Disclosures” of with distinction as a member of Congress, secretary the press, worked miracles of conversion to the cause of state, and its last president from 1844 to 1846. He of annexation in that country. )is aroused all the was responsible for establishing the /rst regulations dormant jealousies and fears of that government, concerning the practice of medicine in Texas. He also the apathy of seven years sleep over the question was urged formation of an “Association of Physicians of shaken o* …” 40 the Republic of Texas for the promotion and general Jones further wrote, “But the excitement in the di*usion of medical knowledge.” )roughout his life, United States on the subject of “British intrigues” Dr. Jones was a proli/c writer. His book, Republic in Texas, which never had an important fact to of Texas , shows his keen intellect, literary style, and stand upon, and the jealousy of European powers devotion to an ideal. It is for these reasons this award had been carried so high, that the [United States] for excellence in journalism is named in his honor. Presidential election coming on, it became a rallying TMA presented the /rst Anson Jones, M.D. award in point for party, “Texas and Oregon” became as Dallas in 1957.” 49 potent words in 1844 as “Log cabins and hard cider” Anson Jones died in Houston, Texas on January 9, were in 1840.” 41 James K. Polk favored annexation of 1858. 50 He was buried with Masonic honors on January Texas and his opponent Henry Clay was against it. 12, 1858 by the Lodge that he had organized at Brazoria In November of 1844, Polk was elected. in 1835, and constituted at Houston, in 1837. 51 Anson Jones continued to play his role in this great drama Jones is buried in Glenwood Cemetery located at 2525 well. During the 1844 Republic of Texas presidential Washington Avenue, Houston, Texas. 52 race, newspapers in the United States regularly Jones County, Texas and its county seat, Anson, reported that Anson Jones was campaigning for both were named in honor of Anson Jones. 53 president “opposed to Annexation” and as the “Anti- Annexation candidate.” 42 In September 1844, Anson III. SIGNIFICANCE Jones was elected the last president of the Republic of Texas. 43 In just over a year following Jones’ election, Anson Jones was born in Great Barrington, the Congress of United States of America approved Massachusetts on January 20, 1798. Jones studied the annexation of Texas by a joint resolution on medicine and received his M.D. degree in 1827. December 29, 1845 the date of Texas’s legal entry Jones came to Brazoria, Texas in 1833 and practiced into the Union. 44 On February 19, 1846, at a formal medicine with much success. ceremony in Austin, President Anson Jones lowered In March 1835, Anson Jones was one of six Master the Lone Star Flag of Texas and proclaimed, “)e Masons who met near Brazoria to establish the /rst /nal act in this great drama is now performed: the regularly formed Masonic lodge in Texas. Under a Republic of Texas is no more.” 45 special dispensation from Grand Lodge of Louisiana, On March 5, 1845, Anson Jones retired from Holland Lodge #36 was opened on December 27, 1835 politics to his plantation, “Barrington,” named after in Brazoria with Jones presiding as Worshipful Master. his native town in Massachusetts. 46 Barrington Anson Jones joined the Texas Army in 1836 and was located near Washington (later known as fought as a private in Sherman’s Second Regiment Washington-on the-Brazos). Today, Anson Jones’ in the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. )e Barrington home is preserved in Washington-on- formal charter granted to Holland Lodge by the the-Brazos State Historical Park. 47 Grand Lodge of Louisiana was delivered to Jones In 1853, the Medical Association of Texas (now the just before the Battle of San Jacinto and was carried Texas Medical Association) was founded. 48 )e Anson in his saddlebags during the battle. Jones, M.D. Awards are presented annually by the Jones was elected to the House of Representative Texas Medical Association to honor members of the from Brazoria to the Second Congress in 1837. On Texas news media for excellence in communicating December 20, 1837, Texas Masons convened in
7 Houston to organize the Grand Lodge of Texas. 9. Ibid, p. 9. Jones was elected the /rst Grand Master of Masons 10. Ibid, p. 11. 11. J. C. Kidd, History of Holland Lodge No.1 Ancient Free and Accepted in Texas. Jones co-founded )e Philosophical Masons , Houston, Holland Lodge No. 1, 1920, p. 4. Society of Texas on December 5, 1837. 12. Kidd, History of Holland Lodge No.1 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons , In 1838, Sam Houston appointed Anson Jones p.11 . Also see Anson Jones,“Free Masonry in Texas: A Reminiscence of its Early History;” reprinted in "e Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Texas , Vol. the Republic’s Minister to the United States. Jones I, ed. A. S. Ruthven, Grand Secretary (Galveston: Richardson & Co., 1857), went to Washington D.C. and began his strategy pp. 6-7. Also see James D. Carter, Masonry in Texas: Background, History for the annexation of Texas. In 1839, Jones was and In%uence to 1846 (Waco, Texas: Committee on Masonic Education & elected senator and served in the Fourth and Fifth Service, Grand Lodge of Texas, A. F. & A. M., 1955), pp. 257-259. For more information on the Masonic Oak see Grand Lodge of Texas web page: Congresses. On May 17, 1840, he married Mary http://www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/masonicoak.php Smith McCrory. Later, Mrs. Anson Jones would be 13. Kidd, History of Holland Lodge No.1 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons , the /rst president of the Daughters of the Republic p.11 . Also see Anson Jones, “Free Masonry in Texas: A Reminiscence of its Early History,” reprinted in "e Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Texas , Vol. I, of Texas. pp. 6-7. In 1841, Sam Houston appointed Jones Secretary 14. J. C. Kidd, “Freemasonry in Texas: A Reminiscence of its Early History, by of State. In September 1844, Anson Jones was Past Grand Master Anson Jones,” History of Holland Lodge No. 1, Ancient Free elected the last president of the Republic of Texas. and Accepted Masons, p. 11. Also see Anson Jones, “Free Masonry in Texas: A Reminiscence of its Early History,” reprinted in "e Proceedings of the Grand )e Congress of United States concluded the Lodge of Texas , p. 7. annexation of Texas on December 29, 1845. On 15. James D. Carter, Masonry in Texas: Background, History and In%uence to February 19, 1846, at a formal ceremony in Austin, 1846 (Waco, Texas: Committee on Masonic Education & Service, Grand President Jones, the “Architect of Annexation,” Lodge of Texas, A. F. & A. M., 1955), pp. 262-264. Also see J. C. Kidd, “Freemasonry in Texas: A Reminiscence of It Early History, by Past Grand lowered the Lone Star Flag of Texas and proclaimed, Master Anson Jones,” History of Holland Lodge No. 1, Free and Accepted “)e Republic of Texas is no more.” Masons , p. 12. Anson Jones retired from politics to his Barrington 16. Herbert Gambrell, Anson Jones: "e Last President of Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964), pp. 62 and 64. Also see Anson Jones, “Private plantation. He died in Houston, Texas on Memoirs,” Memoranda and O#cial Correspondence Relating to the Republic of January 9, 1858. Anson Jones is the only President Texas (Chicago: Rio Grande Press, 1966), pp. 15-16. of a sovereign nation buried in Houston, Texas or 17. Jones, “Private Memoirs,” Memoranda , p. 15-17. Harris County, Texas. 18. Texas General Land O(ce, County: Atascosa, Abstract Number: 507, Class: Bexar Donation, File Number: 66, Original Grantee: Anson Jones, Patent Date: December 5, 1844, Patent No: 78, Patent Vol. 1, Certi$cate: 4, Acres: 640. See IV. DOCUMENTATION Anson Jones Donation Land Grant: https://scandocs.glo.state.tx.us/web/les/landgrants/pdfs/1/4/9/149850.pdf Endnotes 19. Gambrell, Anson Jones: "e Last President of Texas, p. 69. Also see Anson Jones, “Private Memoirs,” Memoranda and O#cial Correspondence Relating to the Republic 1. Texas General Land O(ce, County: Atascosa, Abstract Number: 507, Class: of Texas , p. 17. Bexar Donation, File Number: 66, Original Grantee: Anson Jones, Patent Date: 20. Jones, “Private Memoirs,” Memoranda , p.17. December 5, 1844, Patent No: 78, Patent Vol. 1, Certi$cate: 4, Acres: 640. See 21. Ibid, p.18. Anson Jones Donation Land Grant at: 22. "e Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Texas , Vol. I, ed. A. S. Ruthven, https://scandocs.glo.state.tx.us/web/les/landgrants/pdfs/1/4/9/149850.pdf Grand Secretary (Galveston: Richardson & Co., 1857), p. 9. 2. Anson Jones, “Private Memoirs,” Memoranda and O#cial Correspondence 23. Ibid, pp. 9-10. Relating to the Republic of Texas, Its History and Annexation , intro. James M. 24. Anson Jones, “Free Masonry in Texas: A Reminiscence of its Early Day, 2nd ed. (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1859; Chicago: Rio Grande History,” reprinted in "e Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Texas , Vol. I, ed. A. Press, 1966), p. v-vi. Note: Mrs. Anson Jones originally published Memoranda S. Ruthven, Grand Secretary (Galveston: Richardson & Co., 1857), p. 8. and O#cial Correspondence Relating to the Republic of Texas at her own expense 25. Holland Lodge No. 1, http://www.hollandlodge.org/holland.htm in 1859 shortly after the death of Anson Jones. In addition to his memoranda 26. Gambrell, Anson Jones: "e Last President of Texas , pp. 112-113. and private letters, this work contains a 26-page autobiography of Anson Jones 27. http://www.pstx.org/history.html . Also see Gambrell, Anson Jones: "e Last and his history of the annexation of Texas. Much of the information in this President of Texas, pp. 112-113. narrative was taken directly from Anson Jones’ autobiography entitled “Private 28. Gambrell, Anson Jones: "e Last President of Texas p. 113. See also “)e Memoirs.” (Hereafter cited as Jones, “Private Memoirs,” Memoranda ). Philosophical Society of Texas,” 3. Ibid, p. v. Also see Texas State Library and Archives: http://www.pstx.org/history.html . http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/earlystate/nomore-1.html 29. “)e Philosophical Society of Texas,” http://www.pstx.org/history.html 4. Jones, “Private Memoirs,” Memoranda, p.1. 30. Jones, “Private Memoirs,” Memoranda , p. 20-21. 5. Ibid, p. 5. 31. Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of 6. Ibid, p. 7. Congress, at the commencement of the third session of the Twenty-/fth Congress, 7. Ibid, pp. 5-8. December 4, 1838, Read and committed to a Committee of the Whole House 8. Ibid, p. 8. on the on the State of the Union, 12/04/1838, U.S. House , Serial Set Vol. No.344,
8 Session Vol. No1, 25 th Congress, 3 rd Session, H. Doc. 2 , pp. 33 and 34. Speech, February 19, 1846 at: 32. Anson Jones, “)e History of Annexation,” Memoranda and O#cial http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/earlystate/nomore-1.html Correspondence Relating to the Republic of Texas, Its History and Annexation http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/earlystate/nomore-2.html (Chicago: Rio Grande Press, 1966), pp. 3-30. (Hereafter cited as Jones, “)e http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/earlystate/nomore-3.html History of Annexation,” Memoranda ). 46. Jones, “Private Memoirs,” Memoranda , p. 26. 33. Ibid, 11. 47. Texas Parks and Wildlife, “Barrington Living History Farm,” 34. Ibid. http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest//ndadest/parks/barrington_farm 35. Jones, “Private Memoirs,” Memoranda , p. 21-23. 48. Handbook of Texas Online, “Anson Jones,” 36. Gambrell, Anson Jones: "e Last President of Texas , pp. 194-195. See also http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/JJ/\o42_print.html Anson Jones, “Private Memoirs,” Memoranda and O#cial Correspondence 49. See Texas Medical Association: Relating to the Republic of Texas, Its History and Annexation , p. 22. http://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=119 37. Daughters of the Republic of Texas, 90 Years of the Daughters: History of the and http://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=119#Rules Daughters of the Republic of Texas (Waco, Texas: Texian Press, 1981), p. 2, 5-6; 50. J. C. Kidd, History of Holland Lodge No. 1, Ancient Free and Accepted Constitution and By-Laws of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (Houston: Masons , p. 4. Gray’s Printing O(ce, 1892), 51. Ibid. pp. 11-12. 52. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenwood_Cemetery_(Houston,_Texas) 38. Jones, “Private Memoirs,” Memoranda , p. 23. and http://www./ndagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3753 39. Jones, “)e History of Annexation,” Memoranda, p. 12. 53. Jones County, Texas, http://www.co.jones.tx.us/ips/cms 40. Ibid. 41. Ibid, p. 14. • For further reading about Anson Jones, the Texas State Library and Archives 42. “... opposed to Annexation ...” Jamestown Journal , New York, September 13, Commission has a tremendous amount of information about Anson Jones on their 1844. “Anti-Annexation candidate,” Macon Weekly Telegraph , Georgia, web site. Please visit these web pages for more information as well as scans of many October 22, 1844 Republic of Texas documents concerning Anson Jones and annexation. 43. Jones, “)e History of Annexation,” Memoranda p.15. • See: Triumph and Tragedy: Presidents of the Republic of Texas at: 44. Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America from Dec. 1, http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/presidents/jones/intro.html 1845 to March 3, 1851, V. IX, ed. Geo. Minot, p. 108. Also see: • See: Anson Jones and the Annexation of Texas at: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/annexation/dec1845.html http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/presidents/jones/intro.html 45. Gambrell, Anson Jones: "e Last President of Texas. Austin, p. 418-419. Also • Also see: Anson Jones Valedictory Speech, February 19, 1846 at: see Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Anson Jones’ Valedictory http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/earlystate/nomore-1.html
Harris County Historical Commission —
he Harris County Historical Commission (HCHC) is composed of 50 Tlocal historians who are appointed by the County Judge and Harris County Commissioners Court for two-year terms. All are volunteers, dedicated to preserving and documenting Harris County history. )e county historical commission (CHC) is a vital link in Texas’ preservation network. CHCs conduct programs suggested by the County Commissioners Court and the Texas Historical Commission (THC). Over the years, CHC has worked in a dynamic and positive partnership with the THC to preserve Texas’ heritage for the use, education, enjoyment, and economic bene/t of present and future generations. )ey have been responsible for the preservation of countless historic buildings, artifacts, documents and other pieces of Texas history. HCHC reviews all Harris County applications for state historical markers and Historic Texas Cemetery designation before they are submitted to THC and assists applicants throughout the application process. At this time, there are nearly 400 O(cial Texas Historical Markers and dozens of designated Historic Texas Cemeteries in Harris County.
Sources: Texas Historical Commission — http://www.thc.state.tx.us Harris County Historical Commission — http://harrischc.org
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Step into the lives of Barrington Farm’s earliest residents. Experience the sights, smells, and sounds of the 19th century. )e farm is complete with heritage breeds of livestock, interpreters, dressed in period-style clothing, to help visitors better understand what life was like 150 years ago.
We are encouraged to participate in the work of the farm and become a part of the exhibit. Learn how to drive oxen, help plant and harvest crops, and try your hand at spinning or making soap. Explore the farm and experience the daily lives of those who came before. — Barrington Living History Farm
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11 Texas Pledge of Allegiance
Honor the Texas Flag, I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, One State under God, One and Indivisible.
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