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kitchen, commissary, and barracks. Fort mission leads to the restored three-room N at the Battle of Coleto during the Texas N E If your reader service card is missing, please send your request to War of Independence. This 14-acre site Davis (432) 426-3224 or www.nps.gov/foda 1828 Rice Family Log Home, used in the D American Heritage Reader Service, 416 Hungerford Drive, Suite 216, Rockville, MD 20850-4127 108 AMERICAN HERITAGE late 19th century as a stagecoach depot. and political center of Texas, and site Park interpreters are available year round of the heated conventions of 1832 and upon request. Grapeland (936) 687- 1833 and the Consultation of 1835 that 2394 or www.tpwd.state.tx.us led to the 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence. Visitors can see monu - Palo Alto Battlefield ments, historical markers, a replica dog- National Historical Park trot cabin, and exhibits in the J. J. Josey On this site in May 8, 1846, Brig. Gen. Store Museum. San Felipe (979) 319- Zachary Taylor’s 2,400 troops defeated 6184 or www.thc.state.tx.us Gen. Mariano Arista’s 3,400 Mexicans in the first battle of the Mexican War. The San Jacinto Battleground visitors center, located on the southwest State Historic Site corner of the 300-acre park, features a The 570-foot-tall commemorative stone 15-minute introductory video, War on the monument sits on the site of the decisive Rio Grande and exhibits that reveal both 18-minute battle of April 21, 1836, during U.S. and Mexican perspectives. A half-mile which General Houston’s Texans routed walking trail winds past the battlefield and Santa Anna’s Mexican army and paved contains interpretive panels describing the the way for Texan independence. The battle. Brownsville (956) 541-2785 or 1,200-acre site also encompasses the San www.nps.gov/paal Jacinto Museum of History, which houses more than 400,000 books, documents, and Port Isabel Lighthouse artifacts. Visitors can tour the 1911 New State Historic Site York class battleship Texas , the only re - This 72-foot, 1852 lighthouse on Texas’s maining battleship to have served in both southernmost tip operated until 1905. World War I and II. LaPorte (281) 479- During November 1863 both Union 2431 or www.tpwd.state.tx.us and Confederate soldiers used it as an observation tower. A replicated keeper’s Texas Civil War Museum cottage houses the on-site visitors center This 15,000-square-foot museum houses and features an exhibit on the building’s three interpretive displays and a 75-seat history. Port Isabel (956) 943-7602 or theater that shows the film, Our Homes, www.portisabellighthouse.com Our Rights—Texas in the Civil War. Cos - tumed docents guide visitors through the San Felipe de Austin exhibit spaces, which feature artifacts, such State Historic Site as a first edition Uncle Tom’s Cabin , the Founded in 1823 by Stephen Austin and Victorian dress collection, weapons, and the 297 American families that followed Texas regimental flags. Fort Worth (817) him, this town was the social, economic, 246-2323 or www.texascivilwarmuseum.com

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The Alamo Mexico. Three museum galleries feature In March 1836, the 18th-century mis- displays on U.S.-Mexican culture and local sion served as the site where James wildlife. Two miles of walking trails circle Bowie, William Travis, and 200 Texan the site. Visitors can cross the border on freedom fighters withstood Mexican the Bridge of the Americas and see the general Santa Anna’s 13-day siege. A memorial’s Mexican counterpart, Parque 20-minute presentation by docents re - Chamizal. El Paso (915) 532-7273 or counts the story of the site’s origin as a www.nps.gov/cham Catholic mission, its role as a hospital and cavalry post, and its tactical role during Mission Espíritu Santo the siege. On the four-acre grounds sits State Historic Site Located within Goliad State Park, the the Long Barracks Museum, which fea - 1749 Franciscan mission was Texas’s first tures weapons and letters from Alamo de - large-scale livestock operation and an fenders and an 18th-century well with a important supplier for American troops courtyard. San Antonio (210) 225-1391 during the Revolutionary War. Visitors can or www.thealamo.org take self-guided tours of the stone church, Chamizal National Memorial the adjacent museum with exhibits on the The 55-acre park commemorates the mission’s history, and the surrounding Chamizal Convention of 1963, which grounds. Goliad (361) 645-3405 or resolved a century-old border dispute with www.tpwd.state.tx.us San Antonio Missions Socorro Mission served as the headquarters and Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame National Historical Park Founded originally in 1632 by Franciscan residence of the captain of the Housed in the former horse and mule This 819-acre park encompasses four monks as a haven for Piro, Tano, and Presidio of San Antonio de Béjar, barn of the Fort Worth Stockyards

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and Espada. Visitors can see the film, adobe-and-stucco building with 18th- E contributions to the rodeo and western Gente de Razón , depicting 18th-century century wood-timbered ceiling and in 1772. Three-foot-thick stuccoed M lifestyle in Texas. Highlights include the life in south Texas, and take a 60-minute 20,000 new hand-crafted adobe bricks. stone walls enclose 10 period furnished High Desert Princess in bronze, National Sterquell Wagon Collection, which con - Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame park-ranger guided tour of any of the The El Paso Mission Trail Association rooms, including the parlor, dining tains more than 60 wagons, carriages, four missions. The park also contains a offers guided tours that include nearby room, and bedrooms. Located in the ing the oil derrick, saloon, stables, and and sleighs, such as an 1898 Back-to- working 270- year-old grist mill and Es - missions, San Elizario and Ysleta. Main and Military Plaza Historic carriage works. Self-guided tours begin Back Wagon and a 1912 Standard Oil pada acequia , or irrigation system, with its 15 miles southeast of El Paso District, the Governor’s Palace is a at the visitors center and feature a seven- Tank Wagon. The John Justin Trail of original dam and aqueduct. San Antonio (915) 859-7718 or www.nps.gov/history/ short walk from the San Fernando minute video on the gusher’s impact on Fame contains boots, photo graphs, and (210) 932-1001 or www.nps.gov/saan nR/travel/tx/tx1.htm Cathedral and San Antonio’s 19th- the surrounding area and a water-spout medals honoring the wall’s namesake, century Italian Renaissance Revival reenactment of the moment oil was manufacturer of the standard cowboy San Fernando Cathedral Spanish Governor’s Palace City Hall. San Antonio (210) 224- discovered. Beaumont (409) 835-0823 or boot. Fort Worth (817) 626-7131 or Completed in 1749, the San Fernando Currently under renovation, this adobe 0601 or www.sanantonio.gov/dtops/ www.spindletop.org www.texascowboyhalloffame.com Cathedral became Texas’s first church mansion, which dates from 1749, SpanGovPal.asp parish and the first Cathedral in the United States. The Cathedral was ex - panded in the Gothic-Revival style in 1873 Presidential/State Gov’t. to accommodate its growing congregation Cowboys/Old West after being designated the center of the George Bush Presidential skin vest, walking cane, saddle, and sword. San Antonio diocese by Pope Pious IX. Buffalo Soldiers National Museum King Ranch Library and Museum Houston and his family rented the On 45-minute guided tours, visitors can The two stories of exhibit space in this mu - This 825,000-acre ranch, the “birthplace This 20,000-square-foot facility displays Steamboat House in 1861 after his see the original Cathedral walls lining the seum honor the African-American units of American ranching,” was originally pur - artifacts from George H. W. Bush’s life dismissal as governor after he refused sanctuary as well as the buried tomb of that served on the western frontier. Ex - chased by riverboat captain Richard King and presidency, including the 1944 TBM to pledge his loyalty to the confederacy. Texas heroes Davy Crockett, William hibits cover the buffalo soldier’s 150 years in 1853 and became the first Western Avenger he flew in World War II, a 12- An exhibit hall features a collection of Travis, and Jim Bowie. San Antonio of combat history and include artifacts ranch to develop beef cattle. Located in a foot-tall recreation of a section of the early carpentry tools and firearms. Ninety- www.sfcathedral.org (210) 227-1297 or such as saddles, uniforms, and a 9th Cav - nearby historic Kingsville ice factory, the Berlin Wall, and a replica of the While minute guided tours begin at the visitors alry buffalo soldier’s discharge papers from museum contains exhibits on ranch life House Situation Room in which he di - center and travel through six of the historic the state of Texas in 1873. Houston (713) during the 1940s, a collection of decorative rected the Persian Gulf War. Guided one- structures. Huntsville (936) 294-1832 or Experience History! 942-8920 or www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com saddles, and several antique carriages and hour tours are available by reservation. www.samhouston.org automobiles, such as Congressman R. M. College Station (979) 691-4000 or Chisholm Trail Outdoor Museum Kleberg’s custom 1949 Buick hunting car. bushlibrary.tamu.edu Sixth Floor Museum Named for Scottish-Cherokee trader Ninety-minute guided tours begin at the at Dealey Plaza Jesse Chisholm, this 220-mile-long trail visitors center and pass by a historic com - Lyndon B. Johnson National From the window of the 1901 Texas stretched from Texas to Central Kansas, missary, carriage house, horse cemetery, Historical Park School Book Repository warehouse, Lee providing a route for cattle drivers and mer - and Longhorn cattle barns. Kingsville This 718-acre site, which contains Harvey Oswald shot and killed Pres. John chants from 1867 to 1884. The Chisholm (361) 592-8055 or www.king-ranch.com Lyndon B. Johnson’s boyhood home F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. This Trail Outdoor Museum contains replica and the ranch on which he retired, museum contains exhibits on Kennedy’s Indian tipis and a restored 1854 log court - National Cowgirl Museum commemorates the achievements of 1960 campaign, the Abraham Zapruder house. Cleburne (817) 648-1486 or and Hall of Fame the 36th president. The onsite visitors cen - and Orville Nix films of the assassination, www.visitcleburne.com/attractions This new 33,000-square-foot art deco ter features ranch artifacts and exhibits de - and an oral history collection of more than building presents the history of the tailing his life in Texas and the White 500 first-hand accounts from those near Devil’s Rope Museum American cowgirl with three interactive House. Thirty-minute ranger-guided tours Kennedy on that fateful day. Dallas (214) This 12,000-square-foot museum of exhibit spaces, a theater, and research li - of President Johnson’s boyhood home are 747-6660 or www.jfk.org barbed wire history features several brary. Videos and displays showcase the available as well as 25-minute tours of the exhibits including the Warwire Exhibit, cowgirl’s influence on fashion, pioneer Texas White House, where President John - Texas State Capitol which details the damaging wire used dur - This 1888 Renaissance Revival sunset spirit, and a woman’s daily experience in son lived from 1951 until his death. The ing combat, a demonstration of barbed red-granite building has been meticulously the west. Visitors can ride on a simulated 14-acre Lyndon Baines Johnson Library wire manufacturing, and late 18th- early restored to resemble how it looked in the bucking bronco, view the horse and barrel- and Museum is located in downtown E

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Route 66 Museum contains an old-time Located one mile from the site of the fa - L including the “dogtrot” house, Woodland, R center features interactive exhibits, includ - I G

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Route 66, and more than 700 objects, in - Beaumont’s oil boom, this five-acre out - L Houston, who lived there between 1847 viewers into secret spaces of the Capitol 214-747-6660 z www.jfk.org A N O cluding original road signs. McLean (806) door museum contains 15 replica buildings I and 1853. The 12,082-square-foot Memo - building. Austin (512) 463-5495 or T

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Photos: Bottom left, Dorothy and Carter Murphy Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza; all others The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 112 AMERICAN HERITAGE Silent Wings Museum Burton Cotton Gin & Museum pation, a children’s gallery on inventors, and Panhandle-Plains Located in Lubbock where many World This nine-acre site contains a 1914 cotton a families gallery highlighting 10 African Historical Museum Aviation/Military/ War II “silent wing” glider pilots trained, gin, the only one of its kind still in use. American families and their contributions This 285,000-square-foot museum is the this 40,000-square-foot museum contains Ninety-minute guided tours visit the gin to the community. Austin (512) 974-4926 largest in Texas, interpreting more than 500 Space History one of the only four fully restored Waco and include a 20-minute video on the or www.ci.austin.tx.us/carver million years of history in exhibit areas in - CG-4A gliders in the world, an engine-less revolutionary technology of ginning and cluding, western heritage, petroleum, agri - square-foot hangar features a Russian Mig- Institute of Texan Cultures Frontiers of Flight Museum Aeronca L-3 trainer, historic photographs, baling. Visitors can also pick cotton and This 182,000-square-foot museum explores culture, and transportation. The museum’s Located on the southeast corner of Love 17F, Czech L-29 Delfin trainer, a super - and three galleries filled with weapons such view the restored 1925 Bessemer Type IV the contributions of 26 European, Native more than two million artifacts include an - Field in Dallas, formerly the base for the sonic Lockheed F-104A “Starfighter,” and as the M1 Garand infantry rifle, original diesel oil engine used to power the gin from American, Latino and Asian cultural groups tique tractors, a 1903 Ford Model A serial Fifth Ferrying Wing, this 100,000-square- 10 other aircraft. Tyler (903) 526-1945 or and authentic reproduction uniforms, and 1925 to 1968. Burton (979) 289-3378 or that significantly influenced Texas history. #28, cowboy clothing, a war bonnet and foot museum features exhibits that explore www.tylerhamm.org www.cottonginmuseum.org battlefield souvenirs. Visitors can also Exhibits include the Dome Show Theater’s lance owned by Comanche war chief aviation history from the early 20th cen - watch curators restore a British Horsa Quanah Parker, and a vast collection of his - NASA Space Center Houston Dallas Heritage Village “Texas One and All” and the three part, tury until today. Visitors can view artifacts, glider and a 15-minute video on the U.S. toric firearms, such as flintlocks, and early This 180,000-square-foot facility showcases This 13-acre living history museum inter - “Salute to Military Flight.” An onsite re - such as the radioman’s chair from the WWII glider program. (806) percussion guns. (806) 651-2244 the history of space travel through interac - Lubbock prets frontier life at the time of Texas’s search library houses an extensive archive Canyon LZ-129 Hindenburg , which crashed in 775-2047 or www.silentwingsmuseum.com or www.panhandleplains.com tive exhibits that simulate riding across the war for independence. Costumed inter - of 3.5 million photographs and more than New Jersey on May 6, 1937, propellers moon in the Lunar Rover, retrieving satel - preters lead guided tours through 38 re - 600 oral histories. The surrounding 22 acres from the USS Shenandoah and USS Texas Seaport Museum lites, and landing a space shuttle. The stored 19th-century structures, including a enclose the “Back 40” living history mu - Los Angeles , and a World-War-I Sopwith Located at the historic port of Galveston, open-air tram transports visitors to the train depot, barbershop, and schoolhouse. seum, which features replica adobe huts “Pup” biplane. (214) 350-1651 or the “Ellis Island of the West,” this 10,000 Dallas L L Visitors may also tour a recreated working and log cabin houses. (210) www.flightmuseum.com center’s historic Mission Control Center A San Antonio

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ratory. (281) 244-2100 or C Memorial Museum Houston E U H This 37-acre site features 17 relocated 19th and 20th centuries, and an 80-seat T www.spacecenter.org D O Housed within a 7,000-square-foot O N R George Washington Carver 19th-century structures, including a theatre featuring the panoramic documen - A P former terminal at the Tyler Pounds Museum & Cultural Center Methodist parsonage from 1900, county tary The Great Storm about the 1900 National Museum Blastoff Theater, NASA Space Regional Airport, this museum contains This 36,000-square-foot facility, devoted store, and two-story double house furnished hurricane, still considered the most a World-War-II Norden bombsight once of the Pacific War Center Houston This newly-expanded, 64,945-square-foot to the life, times, research, and experiments with an eclectic antique collection. Visitors devastating natural disaster in U.S. history. used in a B-17 over Europe, original avia - facility features the Plaza of Presidents, an of scientist George Washington Carver, can take a 90-minute tour, listen to an Visitors can also tour the fully-restored 1877 tion headgear, and an extensive collection USS Lexington Museum on the Bay outdoor tribute to the 10 American presi - During World War II, aircraft launched con tains four galleries and an 134-seat the - antique pump organ demonstration, and tall ship Elissa , a 205-foot-long barque of photographs. The adjacent 13,000- dents who served in the military during from the 910-foot-long Essex-class carrier ater. Exhibits include a Juneteenth gallery attend a 19th-century school-house docked outside. Galveston (409) 763-1877 www.galvestonhistory.org/Texas_Seaport_ World War II. The hour-long guided tour destroyed more than 1,000 Japanese planes highlighting the evolution of the holiday session. Nacogdoches (936) 564-6631 or or www.millardscrossing.com Museum.asp takes visitors through a series of interactive and sank more than 300,000 tons of ship - commemorating African-American emanci - exhibits and the Admiral Nimitz Museum, ping. Tours of this ship-turned-museum dedicated to the Texan Naval Academy begin on the Hangar Deck and travel Tyler, Texas alumnus who crafted the Allied “island- through the flight deck, the foc’sle, which hopping” strategy in the Pacific theater. contains the officers’ state room and the Step back in time on your The new 32,000-square-foot George Pearl Harbor exhibit, and the Gallery next trip to ! H. W. Bush Gallery contains a B-25 Deck with the admiral’s quarters and li - bomber flown during the 1942 Doolittle brary. Visitors can also watch films in the Enjoy reenactments, raid. The surrounding six acres feature a 193-seat MEGA theater, such as Fighter historic homes, museums, memorial courtyard and the Japanese Pilot: Operation Red Flag documenting Garden of Peace. Fredericksburg combat pilot training. Corpus Christi turn-of-the-century www.nimitz-museum.org www.usslexington.com plantations and MORE! (830) 997-4379 or (361) 888-4873 or Museums/Living History

Bob Bullock Texas Buffalo Gap State History Museum Historic Village Two blocks north of the Capitol sits the This four-acre living-frontier history site 175,000-square-foot, three-floor museum features 21 relocated 19th-and-20th-cen - that celebrates Texas heritage with multi - tury buildings, including a courthouse, media displays, including a 60-foot-long doctor’s office, railroad depot, and print timeline of Texas history, and recreated shop. The on-site museum contains a 19th- For more information, Native American villages. The Spirit The - century Western Cottage Organ and two ater shows The Star of Destiny , which de - 1915 Model T Fords. Visitors can also view contact the picts momentous events in Texas, such as the museum’s extensive collection of early Tyler Convention & Visitors Bureau the 1900 Galveston Hurricane and the 20th-century medical equipment, maps, at 1-800-235-5712 or takeoff of a Saturn V rocket. Austin and wheeled toys. Buffalo Gap (325) 572- (512) 936-8746 or www.thestoryoftexas.com 3365 or www.buffalogap.com www.VisitTyler.com 114 AMERICAN HERITAGE