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Category Archives: Texas Events On January 30,1886, a group of Dallas business leaders chartered a private corporation; The Dallas State Fair and Exposition, which was to become THE STATE FAIR OF TEXAS. Immediately there were was a disagreement over where to locate the site – resulting in a split into two separate groups; on the Dallas State Fair and […]  Located in the rolling hills between the West Fork of the Trinity River and Clear Fork of the Brazos River Fort Griffin was considered on of the wildest places in the Old West. On July 29, 1867 Fort Griffin was established by four companies of the Sixth Cavalry of the US Army to give settlers […]  Mid-January means only one thing in North Texas, the annual Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo has rolled around again. This event is kick started each year with the traditional Fort Worth Stock Show’s All Western Parade, which is held the first Saturday of the of the show in downtown Fort Worth. An All Western Parade […]  I was tempted to start this blog entry with……If you’re gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band…..but dang that would be corny – so I will not. On Saturday, December 6th the first, of hopefully many, Festival of Texas Fiddling took place at the Twin Sisters Dance Hall in Blanco, […]  In 1858 George Marnoch, a Scottish immigrant, purchased the land that would later become the site of Helotes, Texas. His home served as both a stop for the stagecoach and a post office for local cowboys driving cattle from Bandera to auction in San Antonio. In 1880, Arnold Gugger bought a portion of the land […] |
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