Texas State Historical Association
The Handbook of Texas Online
Texas Day By Day
August 11, 1754.
Decline continues as Spanish officer leaves San Xavier missions
"Rockdale, my hometown, is Texas' heart and significant part of its soul," George Sessions Perry wrote in his book, Texas: A World Unto Itself. Perry wrote with lifelong affection about his hometown, first as a novelist and later as a magazine journalist. He describes the pioneers of Rockdale as typical of restless Southerners who hitched their wagons and moved to Texas after the Civil War. . . . Clay Coppedge . . .
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
1754 Spanish officer leaves San Xavier missions
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