Gonzales County (Tex.) Collection, 1861-1979

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Gonzales County (Tex.) Collection, 1861-1979

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The Gonzales County (Tex.) Collection, 1861-1979, contains photographs, printed material, certificates, scrapbooks, postcards, school papers, an autograph album, and a photocopy of a muster roll for Co. H. Heavy Artillery, Cook's Battalion, Gonzales, Texas.

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Hodges, Courtney H., 1887-1966

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Gonzales County (Tex.)

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Present-day Gonzales County was first settled by Green C. DeWitt's colony in 1825. The colony sent delegates to the conventions of 1832 and 1833 as well as the Consultation of 1835, which the Mexican government deemed treasonable. Troops were sent to Gonzales, which became the site of the first armed encounter in the Texas revolution on October 2, 1835. After independence, Gonzales County, with a county seat at Gonzales, organized in 1837 as one of the original counties ...