Edward Southerland

2 months ago | ntxe-news.com | Edward Southerland

In 1837, when Daniel Rowlett petitioned the Texas Congress to divide Red River County west of the Bois d’Arc, he suggested the name Independence. Congress passed the measure, but changed the name of the new county to honor James Walker Fannin, the commander of the ill-fated Alamo relief force that was surrounded at Goliad and then executed by order of Santa Anna.

Nov 10, 2023 | ntxe-news.com | Edward Southerland

The first stroke of eleven produced a magical effect. The tramcars glided into stillness, motors ceased to cough and fume, and stopped dead, and the mighty-limbed dray horses hunched back upon their loads and stopped also, seeming to do it on their own volition. Someone took off his hat, and with a nervous hesitancy the rest of the men bowed their heads also.

Jul 31, 2023 | ntxe-news.com | Edward Southerland

The first accounts of the land south of the Red River in Northeast Texas date from the late 1680s and reported the area inhabited by Caddo Indians. Caddo was a collective term for of a number of loosely affiliated groups of twenty-five or so separate bands. These bands were further aligned into three principal groups the largest and most centralized being the Kadohadaco who lived along the Red River. The Hasiani lived further into the East Texas piney woods, principally around Nacogdoches.

Jul 9, 2023 | ntxe-news.com | Edward Southerland

Jul 2, 2023 | ntxe-news.com | Edward Southerland