History in Texas

JFK's assassin rented a room in the boarding house in the weeks leading up to the 1963 shooting.

This small, 19th-century structure is all the remains of a once lively travelers' inn that General Robert E. Lee frequented.

Despite changing times, the legendary stage has proved the show must always go on.

One of the largest historical collections on Texas and the American West.

This private mansion turned Catholic bishop’s home is an iconic Galveston building.

The statue, located at a mansion-turned-emancipation museum, honors Galveston’s history as the birthplace of Juneteenth.

The historic tall ship is one of just three of its kind still sailing open waters today.

The preserved wheel ruts of El Camino Real de los Tejas, an 18th-century Spanish colonial road across America's Southwest.

Fears of Satanic worshippers swirl around five Celtic-inspired megaliths.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

Its collection is a sweet reminder of the shuttered factory.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.