A 1900 map of Houston that was recently donated to the General Land Office by a ... whose Austin conservation studio has worked with Save Texas History, said the original maps sometimes are ...

According to the census of 1860, the total population in Texas was counted at 602,432 and 30 percent of that were slaves, totaling 180,682 enslaved people.

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