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English native George Robinson (1820-1888), formerly of the Galveston News, moved to Huntsville by 1846 and began printing the Huntsville Item on August 20, 1850. |
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Born a slave and reared on the Alabama plantation of the Lea family, Joshua Houston was brought to Texas in 1840 by Margaret Lea and Sam Houston. |
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Entrance to Oakwood Cemetery next to Sam Houstonfs grave. |
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Memorial in honor and memory of veterans of all wars sets on a corner of the Walker County courthouse square. |
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Another markers as we circle the courthouse square is the 1936 Texas Centennial Marker . |
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One of 25 lodges started during the Republic of Texas. |
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The Town Theatre opened in 1947 and closed in 1974. Reopened in 2002 as the J. Philip Gibbs Jr. Centre for the Performing Arts. |
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Marker across from the prison and a little off the walk route. |
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The mural gives highlights from the life of Sam Houston who was a frontiersman, the commander of the battle at San Jacinto, Governor of the State of Texas, Chief of the Cherokees, and lived in the steamboat house when he died. |
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Take a Look on the Wild Side by Kat Black (2011) |
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Belvin Hall constructed by the WPA was the first student residence constructed on the campus of Sam Houston State University, then called Sam Houston State Teachers College. |
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Elizabeth Elliott Hall - womenfs dormitory. |
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The Rainbow Walker sculpture is hiding in trees, but overlooks the parking lot on the western edge of Bowers Stadium. It is across several parking lots from the walk route, but you can see it peeking out of the trees if you look hard. |
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Memorial plaque next to the library. |
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![]() Bronze sculpture on the campus of Sam Houston State University dedicated to Frances Handley Bowers wife of Elliott T. Bowers, 9th president of SHSU. Look right as you come up the stairs, it is a little off the route. |
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Way off the walk route, in front of the Performing |
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Dwarf Snap Dragons. |
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Life Size statue of Sam Houston by David Adickes that |
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SHSU Clock Tower with bells on the mall. |
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Fountain on the Mall. |
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gPresidentfs Treeh is a Southern Magnolia planted in 1912 in front of the University Presidentfs residence. |
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This sixteen-foot Howard clock was installed in 2003. |
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Dan Rather Communications Building was dedicated in 1994. Dan Rather who anchored the CBS Evening News for many years is an alumni of SHSU. He graduated August 1953. |
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Carol posing with gOld Mainh and statue of Sam Houston. |
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Bronze statue of Sam Houston is on the Smithsonian Art Inventory. |
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SHSU Co-Ed Residence Hall |
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Inside the rotunda museum is a collection of artifacts and manuscripts belonging to Sam Houston, along with a few of his personal effects. |
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Park Entrance. |
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This pond/lake is rumored to have been dug by the WPA. |
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Sam Houston and his wife Margaret (Lea) built this house, |
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![]() Information plaque about "Woodland Home". |
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