Heritage, Spring 2004 Page: 3
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** That the city of San Antonio, today one of the largest in the United States, was originally
settled by 15 families from the Canary Islands in 1731?
** That those original settlers laid out the town with the doors of their parish church-San
Fernando-as the center point, and to this day mileage markers for San Antonio are measured
using the cathedral site as the city center?
** That in 1836 Mexican General Santa Anna raised the flag of "no quarter" from the tower
of San Antonio's San Fernando church, signifying that he would show no mercy and take no prisoners
at the Battle of the Alamo?
* That Texas has more historical markers more than 12,000 at this time-than any other
state in the country?
*=* That the state's first historical marker was placed at Camp Ford, a Civil War prisoner-ofwar
camp near Tyler, in 1962?
** That Texas Rangers were involved in the pursuit of several famous criminals including
bank robber Sam Bass, gun fighter John Wesley Hardin, and Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker?
* That the remains of a French sailor who died during La Salle's expedition to the New
World in 1686 and found on the submerged ship, the Belle in Matagorda Bay in 1996, were
recently buried in the State Cemetery?
** That this year, the Texas Historical Foundation is celebrating 50 years of helping preserve
the culture, tradition, buildings, and history of this great state?
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Texas Historical Foundation. Heritage, Spring 2004, periodical, Spring 2004; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth45374/m1/3/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas Historical Foundation.