Spotlight on: Portal to Texas History
This web site, hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries, offers users a digital gateway to the vast collections held in Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, and private collections. The digital reproductions include photographs, maps, letters, documents, books, artifacts, and more. It also includes curriculum that applies to the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) standards for use by classroom teachers. Search on "Marshall, Texas" and you find hundreds of pages of photographs of Marshall buildings and people. You'll also find copies of land grants made in Harrison County as well as other documents related to Marshall or the surrounding areas. This graphic sho ws a map drawn by Stephen F. Austin, showing the various land grants and colonies of the early settlement of Texas. Zavala's Grant, DeWitt Colony, and some of the surrounding states and territories can be seen. (Click on the map to see the full-sized image). In addition to s...