Here is the Moon Tower in the Travis Heights neighborhood (Austin, Texas). According to Wikipedia, Austin installed 31 towers in the 1890s, of which 15 remain. They are 165 feet tall and are the only surviving light towers in the world.
The Coryell Museum and Historical Society in Gatesville, Texas, has quite a collection. Let’s start with some of Pancho Villa’s artifacts.
From Wikipedia: Pancho Villa was a Mexican revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution. Villa helped fashion his own image as an internationally known revolutionary hero, starring as himself in Hollywood films and giving interviews to foreign journalists. He was assassinated 20 July 1923.
At Zilker Botanical Gardens, Austin, Texas.
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This is a structure in the Historic Stagecoach Park in Buda, Texas. The information marker says an African-American man named Clint lived in it while he worked for the Carrington Hotel sometime around the year 1900.
Clint’s Cabin
The cabin was moved from its original site to the park so that it would not be torn down. The City of Buda completed the renovations in 2014.
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This is the back porch of President Lyndon B Johnson’s childhood home in Johnson City, Texas. The bathroom was not part of the original house. The outhouse is still in the back yard.
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It's a long story ... 