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Austin Triangle Development Records
Documents the efforts of Austin Mayor Kirk Watson and Garry Mauro, Commissioner of the General Land Office to create a second mixed-use development on the land formerly used by the Austin State Hospital. The development, known as the Triangle was developed on acreage bordered by Lamar Blvd., Guadalupe St. and W. 45th St. The Collection also includes material relating to the first development, known as Central Park on Austin State Hospital land between bordered by Lamar Blvd., Guadalupe St., and W. 38th St.Categories
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Boards of Land Commissioners Records
County boards of land commissioners kept a record of their proceedings as they went about their business of issuing headright certificates to eligible applicants. The Traveling Board was created in 1840 to audit the certificates issued by the County Boards of Land Commissioners with a focus on disqualifying certificates found to be fraudulent. The records documenting the work of the County Boards of Land Commissioners contains four document boxes and five published volumes.Categories
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Bull Family Collection
The Bull Family Collection consists of a snapshot into the lives of Pleasant M. Bull (1808-1836) and Elisha Rufus Bull (1820-1904) through correspondence. Lola Smith collected the letters and provided transcriptions of them in her genealogical manuscript. The family history written in 1986 provides context for the broader Bull family.Categories
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Camp Fannin Cultural Resources Collection
Located outside of Winona, Texas, near Tyler, Texas in Smith County, Camp Fannin Army Training Camp was in operation from 1943-1946. The Camp Fannin Cultural Resources Collection contains artifacts, subject files, and a draft Cultural Resources Report.Categories
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Clerk Returns Collection
A clerk return is a document created by the appointed clerk for the county board of land commissioners that records information associated with the issuance of a land certificate. The Collection is primarily used to provide genealogists with the movements and acquaintances of their ancestors. Clerk returns contain the name of every person to whom a certificate shall be given, the amount of land granted to each person, the time of their emigration to the country, the name or names of the witness or witnesses by whom the claimants severally proved their claims.Categories
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Dudley H. Ward Civil War Letters
Dudley H. Ward (1845-1864) Confederate soldier and prisoner of war, was born in 1845 in Austin, Texas. The Dudley Ward Papers, 1863-1864, contains correspondence and one parole certificate documenting Ward's experience as a Confederate soldier at the Seige of Vicksburg, in camps in Mississippi and Texas, and in Galveston during the yellow fever epidemic.Categories
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Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company Records
The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company was formed in 1830 by combining the contracts of David Burnet (1788-1870), Lorenzo de Zavala (1789-1836), and Joseph Vehlein after the three empresarios had encountered difficulties in starting their colonies. The records of the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company consist of 39.1 linear feet of land titles, memoranda, and character certificates dated from 1834-1835.Categories
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Houston County Field Notes Volume
The Volume is a handwritten copy of the field notes for Mexican land titles and 1st (and some 2nd) class headright certificates issued for Houston County.Categories
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Jack Giberson Records
Jack Giberson (1919-2007), worked for the General Land Office for 41 years. During his career he served as Chief Clerk and First Deputy Land Commissioner. The Jack Giberson Papers include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, legal documents, legislation, administrative documents, maps, surveys, field notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, reports, and notes collected and created by Giberson during his employment at the Land Office.Categories
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Ken Towery Papers
Ken Towery (1923- ), Pultizer Prize-winning Texas reporter and former POW, was born in 1923 in Monroe County, Mississippi. His papers contain newspapers, clippings, magazines, and moving images documenting his investigation of the Veterans Land Board Scandal in 1954-1955.Categories
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Land Law Reference Books
Three volumes of legislative reference material used by the Legal Examiner of the General Land Office.Categories
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Maddox Family Papers
The Maddox brothers--John. W. Maddox (1846-1935), and his brother Frank M. Maddox (1851-1921)--began working as surveyors in the panhandle in the early 1870s. Through the 1890s an important business focus of the Maddox Brothers was land speculation and real estate development, in addition to their regular work as surveyors.The Maddox Family Papers consists of maps, correspondence, and typescript materials dating from 1850 to approximately 1941. The bulk of the materials is made up of maps and sketches which were gathered or produced in relation to the surveying and real estate interests of John W. Maddox and his brother Frank M. Maddox. Additional correspondence and other materials are also present which relate to personal and some business matters of the Maddox family.
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Neel Family Civil War Papers
T.C. Neel (1825-1863), signer of the Texas Articles of Secession and member of the Texas House and Senate, was born in Sparta, Georgia in 1825. The Neel Family Civil War Papers, 1833-1900, contain family correspondence, a document, a photograph and two published pamphlets.Categories
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Rufus Brooks Mann Civil War Letters
Rufus Brooks Mann (1832-1902), educator, Texas Ranger, and Confederate soldier, was born in North Carolina in 1832. His papers contain correspondence between Mann and his wife and personal documents.Categories
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Special Orders of the 5th Military District
The 5th Military District was the military governing body for Texas during Reconstruction. The Special Orders of the Fifth Military District contains printed copies of approximately 84 extracts as they pertain to the Texas General Land Office and other State agencies for January - April, 1870.Many of the Special Orders direct the removal of persons from public office and the appointment of others down to the county level.
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Texas State Capitol Building Records
The records are a facsimile of the building contract and the specifications for the construction the Capitol building.Categories
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Twichell Survey Records
In attempts to verify and prove land ownership and boundaries, Humble Oil acquired surveying records related to lands primarily in West Texas. The Twichell Survey Records Committee was created to manage the Twichell Records, and all surveying records held by Humble and the Committee became known as the Twichell Survey Records.The Twichell Survey Records Committee was created in 1959 by a legal agreement between six oil companies for the purpose of managing the Twichell Survey Records. Surveying sketches, cadastral maps, town and neighborhood plats, field books, field notes, correspondence, and photographic materials comprise the Twichell Survey Records, 1832-1984.