West Columbia, Texas
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West Columbia is a city in Brazoria County, Texas, United States. The city is centered on the intersection of Texas Highways 35 & 36, 55 miles southwest of downtown Houston. The population was 3,644 a
Capitol Theater
Stephen F. Austin death place on County 467
Charlie Brown state historic marker on Brazos Ave.
Veterans War Memorial at the American Legion Post
Stephen F. Austin
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Stephen Fuller Austin was an American-born empresario, i.e. a person granted the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for settling the eastern areas of the Teja
West Columbia, Texas
…Columbia’s inadequate accommodations for government personnel. President Houston ordered the move on December 15. On December 27, 1836, Secretary of State Stephen F. Austin died at the home of George B. McKinstry in Columbia. After the Republic’s government left, commercial activity in the community (thereafter called West…
Posthumous portrait c. 1840
Memorial to Stephen F. Austin in his birthplace
Sam Houston and Stephen Austin depicted on the Texas Centennial Issue postage stamp of 1936
Portrait of Austin, 1833