The Fort Moultrie featured-selections

The Fort Moultrie featured-selectionsThis flag was first flown over an island fort built by General William Moultrie near Charleston, South Carolina and reflects the desire by the American colonists for divinely inspired Liberty. The American forces defending the fort wore a silver crescent on their caps emblazoned with "Liberty or Death," and the Moultrie design was the first American flag flown in the Southern states. The fort was built out of the materials at hand palmetto logs and

Most able bodied men - from a wide range of ages - answered the call to serve their community and then returned to the civilian pastimes as soon as the crisis was resolved

The routes of explorers

Greer County

This fine pocket map was published and distributed to promote the routes of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company encouraging Texans to explore their expansive and diverse home state as well as offering an efficient connection and a more direct route to explore the untamed lands out West

For the colonists

Hang it high

with teams changed at every two or three stations

the first year of Texas' Independence

Mining was the county's leading industry until the mid 20th century

000 Gold Coupon Bond paid 4%

Orozimbo (this was a large sugar cane plantation in Brazoria County) and Tenoxtillan

Many lesser known and once important settlements particularly along the Texas Coast are noted such as Austinia on the west bank of Galveston Bay that was originally developed by Stephen F