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The Texas Revolution in Nacogdoches The Texas Revolution in Nacogdoches Scan this QR code with your smart phone to see more information about The Texas Revolution in Nacogdoches Misty Hurley, a Graduate If you do not have a QR Student in Public History at Stephen F. Austin State code scanner, you may University, created this visit the following brochure as part of her thesis website for more on cemetery preservation and information: creation of interpretive http://www.sfasu.edu/ materials connecting Oak Grove Cemetery of heritagecenter/7042.asp Nacogdoches with historic sites, museums, artifacts, and archival records. The Texas Revolution is significant in the history of Nacogdoches because citizens of Nacogdoches The First Shots served in the Texan This project has been created of the Texas Army and signed the in conjunction with the Texas Declaration of Center for Regional Heritage Revolution Independence. Research at SFASU. Photograph courtesy of the East Texas Research Center. Government passed the Law of April 6, 1830 The large number of Anglos entering Texas which closed the borders of Texas to immigrants, Visit these sites in the early 1800s, either with the sponsorship of an suspended all land grants, required all trade to be empressario or illegally, began to worry the conducted with Mexico, and allowed the associated with Mexican government who noticed that settlers were Mexican government to collect customs. The the Texas not taking their oaths of allegiance and agreements reaction of Texans to the Law of April 6, 1830, is with the government seriously. Individuals who called the Disturbances of 1832, is considered the Revolution in made their homes here at this time include future beginning of the Texas Revolution. Texas Revolutionaries such as Sam Houston, Nacogdoches Thomas J. Rusk, Haden Edwards, Charles S. Instead of bringing their weapons into town to Taylor, and Adolphus Sterne. turn in, as commanded by General Piedras, East Texans came to town to fight. Starting on August The Stone Fort Museum The Fredonian Rebellion 2, 1832, the Battle of Nacogdoches took place – Griffith Street on the over the course of two days and in downtown campus of Stephen F. Haden Edwards, an empressario with land Nacogdoches. As the Texans gained ground, Austin State University grants around Nacogdoches, embodied many of the Piedras fled to the Angelina River where he was government’s fears. Edwards and other captured and forced to surrender, putting an end Battle of Nacogdoches empressarios were reluctant or downright refused to the battle. to honor previous Mexican and Spanish land and Fredonian Rebellion Historical Markers and grants. Another reason Edwards was disliked was The Texas Revolution his meddling in Nacogdoches’s politics, much to plaques located around the disdain of many citizens, who complained to While no battles of the Texas Revolution took the Visitor’s Center – 200 the Mexican government. The Mexican place in Nacogdoches, citizens of Nacogdoches East Main St. government revoked the Edwards brothers’ grant. had an important part in the struggle. Sam The brothers determined that the only way to get Houston and Adolphus Sterne signed a treaty The Sterne-Hoya House their land back would be to break away from the with the local Native American tribes to prevent Museum – 211 South Mexican government and establish their own war with the tribes while Texans were fighting Lanana St. republic, the Republic of Fredonia. Upon hearing Mexican forces. Sterne also gathered and funded about this uprising, the Mexican government sent the New Orleans Greys who fought and died in The Red House historical troops to Nacogdoches, but the closer the troops the battle of the Alamo and at Goliad. Locals marker – 115 South St. came to the town, the less support the brothers Thomas J. Rusk, Charles Taylor, John S. Roberts, retained and the members of the uprising fled. and Robert Potter served on the provisional Texas Revolutionaries’ government of 1836, and Rusk became Secretary graves at Oak Grove The Battle of Nacogdoches of War and served as leader of the Texan Army at San Jacinto after Sam Houston was wounded. Cemetery - North Lanana The Fredonia Rebellion left the Mexican St. government and its Texas settlers uneasy and suspicious of one another. The Mexican .
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