USS Lexington Families, school classes and scout troops won’t want to miss visiting the vintage WWII naval aircraft carrier that is now situated as a floating museum in Corpus Christi, Texas. The USS Lexington has had an illustrious career, and holds the distinction of having the longest term of continuous use and longest list of [...]
March 13, 2012
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Texas Ranger Hall of Fame – Waco, Texas
The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame No, we’re not talking about a baseball team, we’re talking about the historic Texas Ranger Division, the world-famous law enforcement agency that has been solving crimes in the State of Texas since 1823. Texas Rangers provided protection in the Republic of Texas from 1836 – 1845, and with a [...]
March 9, 2012
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The Story Of Texas Museum – Austin, Texas
The Story of Texas Museum Named after a former state Lieutenant Governor, The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum opened in April of 2001. Funded by the Texas State Legislature and reviewed and approved by respected state historians, the high-tech museum offers numerous interactive exhibits, special effects and an IMAX theatre to provide a Texas [...]
March 9, 2012
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Texas State Aquarium – Houston, Texas
In 1969, the Junior League of Corpus Christi and the local Junior Chamber of Commerce got together to form the Gulf Coast Zoological and Botanical Society with the intention of building an aquarium. The organization changed its name in 1978 and then again in 1986 to the Texas State Aquarium Association. Working throughout the years [...]
March 9, 2012
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Texas State Capital – Austin, Texas
Texas State Capital It was back in 1839 when five mounted scouts rode across the Republic of Texas, looking for the perfect spot for a new capital city. On the north bank of the Colorado River, in a central location, was a little settlement of four families called Waterloo. In September of 1839, fifty ox-drawn [...]
March 5, 2012
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Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Established as the Manned Spacecraft Center in 1961, the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (the Center) was named in honor of the late President. It is the primary facility charged design, development, and operation of human space flight in the United States. For nearly fifty years now, the Center can claim world-wide leadership in human [...]
March 5, 2012
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The Alamo
Built as Mission San Antonio de Valero, the landmark now known as The Alamo in downtown San Antonio was the first of five Spanish colonial missions that were established in San Antonio in the early 1700s. The goal was to Christianize and educate Native Americans. As was customary, a fort was built to protect mission [...]
February 22, 2012
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50 Most Famous People from Texas
Wikipedia lists over 2,400 “famous” people who were born, reared or spent a significant portion of their life in Texas. Most seemed relatively obscure so we thought it’d be easy to narrow the list down to the top 50. Well, it wasn’t. We ended up with “contemporary” list of celebrities, politicians, sports stars, actors and musicians from Texas. If you [...]
February 22, 2012
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For What is Texas is Famous?
We have good number of our visitors asking “what is texas famous for?” or “what makes texas famous?” So we’ve compiled the top 10 reasons why Texas is famous. The Alamo – Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and 180+ Texians including battled for 3 days against 6000+ members of the Mexican army. Granted, they lost and [...]
February 21, 2012
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Texas Movies
Here are some of our favorite movies about Texas – from classic Texas cowboy movies,and westerns to the modern day Texas heroes of Apollo 13.
March 13, 2012
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