Feb 2, 2024 | From The Vault of Texas History
The 1960 Roughnecks varsity football team won a district championship under Head Coach E.S. Golson, boasting a pair of honorable mention All State selections 64 years ago. Both of those All State picks were linemen, seniors Robert Eugene “Bobby” Liles and Kenneth...
Jan 30, 2024 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton Long range missiles, drones and devastating bombs are the norm in modern warfare across the globe in the present day. But when the great state of Texas was in its infancy 200 years ago more rudimentary weapons were commonly utilized. Columbia...
Dec 27, 2023 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton Death claimed the life of Stephen Fuller Austin, the man known as “The Father of Texas,” on this date 187 years ago. Pneumonia was the villain. The same malady that took his father from him before Moses Austin could see his dream of colonizing the...
Dec 24, 2023 | From The Vault of Texas History
1599 – A Spanish expedition led by Juan de Oňates introduces First Nations to Christmas near El Paso.1693 – Spanish soldiers under Juan Domínguez de Mendoza cross the Rio del Norte, now called the Rio Grande, on Christmas Day and holds a Mass on Texas...
Nov 29, 2023 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton Former West Columbia Mayor C.B. “Bubba” Gilbert was posthumously honored with induction into the Sons of the Republic of Texas at a recent meeting of the Stephen F. Austin Chapter 6 of the SRT. A Sons of the Republic of Texas medallion was...
Nov 22, 2023 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton When I was going through a cabinet at my parents’ home following the death of my father in 2001, I came across several stacks of old newspapers that my mother had kept over the years. She preceded my Dad to “her reward,” as Granny...
