The Lone Star State:
Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State because of the single star in the Texas State Flag. |
The Alamo:
The Alamo (the Spanish word for "cottonwood") is located in San Antonio. It is where 200 Texas defenders fell to the Mexican Army on March 6, 1836 after a 13 day siege. Among the Alamo's garrison were Jim Bowie, renowned knife fighter, and David Crockett, famed frontiersman and former congressman from Tennessee. The Alamo is considered the cradle of Texas liberty and the state's most popular historic site. |
Texas State Flower:
The Texas State Flower is the Bluebonnet. Named for its color and the resemblance of its petal to a woman's sunbonnet, the bluebonnet. It blooms in the early spring and can be readily found in fields and along the roadsides throughout central and south Texas. Scientifically named Lupinus texensis, the bluebonnet is also called buffalo clover, wolf flower, and (by the Mexicans) el conejo. It was adopted as the official state flower by the Texas Legislature in 1901. |
Tyler Municipal Rose Garden:
The Tyler Municipal Rose Garden is the world's largest rose garden. It contains 38,000 rose bushes representing 500 varieties of roses set in a 22-acre garden. |
The 28th State:
Texas was an Independent Republic before becoming a state on Dec. 29, 1845. |
Armadillo:
The armadillo is the official state mammal |
Texas Cities:
Texas possesses three of the top ten most populous cities in the United States. These towns are Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. |
Texas Farming:
More land is farmed in Texas than in any other state. |
Largest Fishing Pier:
Port Lavaca has the world's longest fishing pier. Originally part of the causeway connecting the two sides of Lavaca Bay, the center span of was destroyed by Hurricane Carla in 1961. |
First Rodeo:
The world's first rodeo was held in Pecos, Texas on July 4, 1883. |
