Santa Anna's Surrender

After the battle, General Santa Anna was among the few Mexican soldiers who avoided death or capture. Houston sent scouts to round up the fleeing Mexicans. He realized that if Santa Anna managed to escape he might lead the 3,000 ...

Initial Engagement and Mexican Retreat

A second detachment of Houston's cavalry had been sent to New Washington to reconnoiter Santa Anna's movements. This detachment found the Mexicans had burned the town and were advancing toward Lynch's Ferry. The Mexican Army arrived at site Marker 11 ...

The Approach to San Jacinto and the Encampment

On April 20, a detachment of Texas cavalry reconnoitering the route to Lynch's Ferry captured a flatboat full of provisions, staged for use by Santa Anna's men near the ferry landing. The Texas Army arrived near this spot about 11:00 ...

Causes for Independence

In February 1831, Land Commissioner Francisco Madero issued land titles to some of the people who had come to settle in Texas, which was then part of Mexico. Having been given legal ownership of the land, the settlers established the ...

Higgins Avenue Bridge

The Missoula Marathon’s twenty-sixth mile crosses the Higgins Avenue Bridge and finishes on its north end, serving as one of many notable events in the river crossing’s long and storied history.

Several “Higgins Avenue Bridges” have been built over the ...

Missoula Foot Races

Distance running has a storied history in Missoula, Montana. Take, for example, the “Course des Femmes,” the first documented footrace in the area, which took place nearly 200 ...

Frenchtown Community

Settled in 1857, Frenchtown is one of Montana’s earliest communities. Appearing ahead of the Montana gold rushes and in advance of the railroad, many of Frenchtown’s settlers were closely-connected to the fur trade and many were French-Canadians or ...

Gotham Jewelry Shop

The Gotham Jewelry shop operated at 15 Main Street between 1933 and 1967 by owner Octave N. Rosenberg. The shop was also Bill Finger's inspiration for the fictional Gotham City made famous in the Batman Comics.

The Grand Concourse- Bronx

The Grand Concourse was conceived during the height of the City Beautiful Movement as the residential Champs Élysées of the Bronx, a broad promenade intended to inspire harmonious social order through grand design. Designed as a wide, tree-lined thoroughfare with ...

Meek/Eaton Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum

The center was officially founded in 1976, by noted historian and pioneering archivist and curator, the late Dr. James N. Eaton, Sr. It opened to the public in 1977 in FAMU’s historic Carnegie Library. Built in 1907, Carnegie Library is ...