Austin
Mrs. Eberly’s cannon, the poisoned oak, the Pig War and Sweatt’s courthouse.
7 places
Dido Removed
A state legislator reached into a student opera, and the singer he got removed stayed on to graduate.
Houston Refuses the Oath
The victor of San Jacinto refused an oath and lost the governor's house.
Mrs. Eberly's Cannon
A president wanted his government's papers. An innkeeper had the town's loaded cannon.
Sweatt's Courthouse
He won in the Supreme Court, and lost nearly everything else. His name is on this courthouse.
The Pig War
France's envoy to Texas broke off relations over pigs, and left the house he built before he could live in it.
The Poisoned Oak
Someone poured herbicide around a five-hundred-year-old tree, and the town answered with get-well cards.
The Teller and the Court
A bank teller on the run came home to a dying wife and was convicted in this building.