The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Union and Confederate sympathizers skirmished ... “And Grace Will Lead Me Home: African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas, 1865-1928.” In general, she writes, these communities ...

Texas is one of the few states that were once independent countries, and is quite proud of that. But just 16 years after ...

Texas is a state built on independence, industry, and expansion. It was its own republic before joining the U.S. in 1845 and ...

The Austin school ... States when Texas joined the union. Jan. 1, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed enslaved people in the Confederate states.

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Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe place to raise their families in Austin.