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[Photograph of Colonel E. S. C. Robertson Statue]

Description: Photograph of a statue of a man wearing a knee-length, double-breasted coat, with long boots, and a military slouch hat in his right hand. In his left hand, the man is resting his hand on the hilt of a sheathed saber. The man has a large mustache and a short, bushy beard. The statue is set on a short, square block of light-colored stones, upon which is a plaque with the name "Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson." There are some trees in the near background, and beyond that, the grey sky is visible.… more
Date: July 1999
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.941528 -97.537284
Partner: Salado Public Library

Papers concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas, Volume 10

Description: This volume continues the story of Sterling C. Robertson's colonization efforts in Texas. Includes a description land in the Upper Brazos, and lists the 58 land grants issued between March 21, 1835 and July 25, 1835. Includes transcriptions of grants, correspondence, and other papers related to the Robertson Colony. Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Date: 1983
Creator: McLean, Malcolm Dallas, 1913-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas, Volume 9, October 1834, through March 20, 1835, Sarahville de Viesca

Description: The papers concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas include text providing historical context and an overview of events as well as transcriptions of land grant maps and other documentation related to the colony. This volume focuses on the establishment of the colony's capital, Sarahville de Viesca. Index starts on page 589.
Date: 1982
Creator: McLean, Malcolm Dallas, 1913-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries

Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas, Volume 11, July 26 through October 14, 1835, Nashville-on-the-Brazos

Description: The papers concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas include text providing historical context and an overview of events as well as transcriptions of land grant maps and other documentation related to the colony. This volume focuses on the events immediately before the Texas Revolution when the Mexican army moved into parts of Texas and the people living in Sarahville de Viesca (the capital of Robertson's Colony) began to leave the city to live in Nashville-on-the-Brazos, another city within the … more
Date: 1984
Creator: McLean, Malcolm Dallas, 1913-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries

Papers concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas, Volume 2

Description: "Leftwich's Grant is the second volume in a series that is intended to document the colonization of an area in Central Texas that eventually became known as Robertson's Colony." It covers "the three years that [Robert] Leftwich spent in Mexico City and Saltillo" and includes "a complete account of his official negotiations with both the national government in Mexico City and the state government of Coahuila and Texas. It also includes documents concerning Dr. Felix Robertson, President of the T… more
Date: 1975
Creator: McLean, Malcolm Dallas
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Partner: UNT Libraries

The Black Churches in Wheelock, Robertson County, Texas

Description: History of churches that served the African-American community in Wheelock, Texas, including: Triumph/Trump Baptist Church, Old New Hope Baptist Church, Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Sharon Chapel African Methodist Church, New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, and the Church of God in Christ.
Date: August 2015
Creator: Adams, Estelle Mitchell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of E. M. Adams

Inventory of the county archives of Texas : Robertson County, no. 198

Description: Inventory of the records of Robertson County housed in the Robertson County Courthouse as of 1937. Begins with a historical sketch of the county along with a governmental organization chart and information on the housing, care, and accessibility of the records. Describes the records of the County Commissioners Court, County Clerk as Recorder, District Court, County Court, Justices of the Peace, County Attorney, Sheriff, Constables, Tax Assessor-Collector, Board of Equalization, County Treasur… more
Date: March 1941
Creator: Historical Records Survey. Texas.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Soil Survey of Robertson County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Robertson County, Texas.
Date: 2007
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Transcript of Letter from F. W. Johnson to Editors of the Galveston News, April 29, 1834]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter from F. W. Johnson to Editors of the Galveston News, in which Johnson offers corrections to the facts stated in a series of stories published in the Galveston News on Early colonization. Johnson provides clarification regarding: dates on which certain events occurred, relationships between persons, and numbers of families introduced by Robertson and Austin.
Date: April 15, 1834
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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