Old Three Hundred
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The "Old Three Hundred" were 297 grantees who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin in Mexican Texas. Each grantee was head of a household, or in some cases, a partnership of unmarr
Texas State Historical Marker on Farm to Market Road 102 southeast of Bonus, Texas.
Memorial Stone erected by the State of Texas 1936 at the site of Woods Fort
Empresario
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An empresario was a person who entered into a contract with the Spanish or Mexican government during the early nineteenth in order to settle on sizeable grants of land in exchange for recruiting famil
Stephen F. Austin, known as the "Father of Texas"
