The area around Abilene is so rich with oil that when the city put up a demonstration oil-drilling rig on the county fairgrounds, just to illustrate the techniques of "making a hole," it struck oil!    per: Texas Trails, Abilene, TX.
This pioneer custom may not have originated in Texas but it was without doubt practiced there.
      Pioneer cabin doors were secured only by a wooden latch and a string attached to that latch would pull it up and allow the door to open. When the latchstring was outside the door, anyone could enter.
      If the resident was home and did not want to be disturbed, the latchstring was pulled to the inside of the door.
      Many pioneers were justly proud of the fact that they gave food, lodging and a warm welcome to anyone who came along. Thus the saying, "the latchstring is always out", came to mean a home where a traveler could always find friendliness and hospitality.

Trula Phelps said electric power first arrived in Northeast Tarrant County, TX, when she was a young girl c1940's and everyone wanted an electric "ice box." If you didn't have the cash, the hardware store would send you out one with a coin box attached. In order to keep it running you had to put 25 cents a day in the slot. These quarters then made the payments on the new "box."

The Tarrant County Court House was built in Fort Worth amidst much controversy in 1895. The Architects were Gunn and Curtis of Kansas City, MO.

Texas has more area than the largest country in Western Europe

DATELINE Dallas, Texas. Nov 4, 1998. Scott Sams, WFAA Channel 8 Noon News: "One out of every ten americans now have a state governor named BUSH. George W. in Texas or Jed in Florida."

According to the Census Bureau, 7.1% of the people living in the United States in 1994 lived in Texas.

Quoting from an article by Frank Perkins in the August 12, 1998, Fort Worth Star Telegram. According to Sue Pittman Fox, Medal of Honor researcher, "...the first Texan to receive a Medal of Honor was a freed slave, Milton M. Holland, born in Austin in 1844. A sergeant-major with the Union Army, Holland was nominated for the medal at the Battle of Chapin's Farm in Virginia on Sept. 29, 1864, after taking command of a unit that had lost all its officers..." posted with permission

Texas received its name from the early Spanish explorers. It is their pronunciation of the name of a group of Indian tribes they found living in what is now the northeastern part of the state. Those tribes were called Tejas, meaning friends or allies.

Texas was an independent republic for nearly 10 years prior to December 29, 1845, when it became the 28th state to enter the Union of the Unites States of America.

The nickname, Lone Star State, comes from the single star that appeared on the flag of the Republic of Texas. The vertical blue bar is for loyalty. The white bar represents strength, and the red bar is for bravery. The State Flag is the same.

Texas is more than 220 times as large as, Rhode Island, the smallest of the United States of America.

The Oldest Dr Pepper Bottling Co in the World is at Dublin, Texas. Texans have enjoyed Dr Pepper since 1891.

An Erol Flynn line from a 1945 movie titled SAN ANTOINO: "Everything either begins in Texas or ends up there."

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