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Mapping Texas: The Gulf Coast in the 20th Century
Gulf Fishguide Bureau, Gulf Oil Corp. Fishgide — Freeport, Houston: Gulf Oil Corp., 1960s, Map #75978, Map Collection, Archives and Records Program, Texas General Land Office, Austin, TX.With 367 miles...
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Mapping Texas: The Gulf Coast — Coastal Islands
[detail] R. C. Tremble and William Lindsey, Galveston Island, Austin, 1837, GLO Map #1954, General Map Collection, Archives and Records Program, Texas General Land Office, Austin, TX. Conservation of...
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Mapping Texas: The Gulf Coast — Coastal Counties, Part 1
[detail] James H. Selkirk, Map of Matagorda Bay and County with the Adjacent County, manuscript, 1838, Map #2002, Map Collection, Archives and Records Program, Texas General Land Office, Austin,...
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Mapping Texas: The Gulf Coast — Coastal Counties, Part 2
F. G. Blau, Map of Orange County, Austin: Texas General Land Office, 1886, Map #3931, Map Collection, Archives and Records Program, Texas General Land Office, Austin, TX.Mapping Texas: The Gulf Coast —...
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Tabs Buoy Recovery Operation
The Texas General Land Office’s Oil Spill Prevention and Response team is at it again! One of the team’s top priorities is to ensure that oil is both diminished and prevented in all scenarios. However,...
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Mapping Texas: The Gulf Coast — Ingleside
[detail] D.C. Kolp and E. D. Allen, Plat of Ingleside and Garden Tracts, August Gast Bank Note and Litho. Company: St. Louis, ca 1890. Map #661, Maddox Collection, Archives and Records Program, Texas...
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Mapping Texas: The Gulf Coast — Rockport
Mapping Texas: The Gulf Coast — RockportWith 367 miles of beaches on the Gulf of Mexico, more than 3,300 miles of bays and estuaries, and hundreds of communities, Texas has one of the longest, most...
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Celebrating Our Veterans
During Hispanic Heritage Month, we step back and evaluate the significant contributions Hispanics and Latinos have had on the United States military, dating back all the way to the Civil War....
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Where Disaster Strikes, the GLO’s Oil Spill Team can be Found
South East Texas is at the mercy of tropical storms upon hurricane season. Many can leave detrimental results that last long after the storm subsides.The Texas General Land Office (GLO) recognizes the...
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Texas GLO providing assistance for renters
Hurricane Harvey devastated many communities along the Texas coast, damaging or destroying numerous affordable housing complexes, but the Texas General Land Office (GLO) continues to work daily with...
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Texas Lands and Waters Aren’t the Only Things Worth Saving
When people think of the Texas General Land Office’s Oil Spill team they often think of the vast amount of land and coastal waters our team helps protect and preserve across the great state of Texas....
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Homeowner Highlight: Glasgow Family is Home for the Holiday
Homeowner Highlight: Glasgow Family is Home for the HolidayRecently, Eleonore Glasgow spent the first night in her newly rebuilt and elevated home from the Texas General Land Office’s Homeowner...
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Portrait of a Patriot: Edward Burleson
Daguerreotype portrait of Edward Burleson, age 58, taken at a photo studio in Austin, Texas in 1850, the year before his death. (Source.)Edward Burleson, the famous nineteenth-century soldier and...
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Connecting the Republic — The Central National Road of Texas
Photo: Bell, Jim. SHSC Historical Marker Central National Road 1844, photograph, November 13, 2008; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth85150/m1/1/?q=central%20national%20road: accessed...
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NALL: The Space Baseball Community
by: George Vernau III, 2019 Save Texas History Essay Contest 4th grade grand prize winnerOne day I want to be a professional baseball player. So far, I have played for the Red Sox, the Angels, the...
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Freedmen’s Town Bricks
Bricks in Freedmen’s Town, Houston, Texas, photo courtesy of houstonpublicmedia.orgby: Aiden Williams, 2019 Save Texas History Essay Contest 7th grade grand prize winnerTo my generation history is...
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Year in Review
2019 was a busy year at the GLO! Let’s take a look back at the last 12 months…We shattered records, generating more than $1 billion in oil and gas leases alone. That’s a lot of 💰💰 💰 for Texas...
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A Year in Review for Long-Term Disaster Recovery
This year marks the start of a new chapter for thousands of Texas families devastated by Hurricane Harvey. This includes hundreds who have an elevated, storm-hardened house to call home thanks to the...
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Charles William Pressler — A Legacy of Maps in the GLO Archives
Draftsman’s Room at the Old General Land Office Building, 1887. Charles Pressler can be seen seated in the middle of the front row. His son Herman stands behind him alongside famed storyteller William...
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“Original Austinites” — Identifying the Citizens of Waterloo
This reproduction of an 1838 map shows Waterloo, future site of Austin, on the banks of the Colorado River in what was then part of Bastrop District. [detail] Barlett Sims, [Bastrop District], 9 March...
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