Hayden starts the 7th grade this year = Texas History

My son Hayden starts the seventh grade this year and while I know about Texas History, I'm fuzzy. I had a thought, that traveling Texas on the weekends would help things stick with him. We could walk some of those important areas and honorable mention and in the meantime check out some cool new parts of Texas that have never seen.

Let's discuss some of those places. Of course, the Alamo (San Antonio) is one of the big ones that will be highlighted.

What else can we come up with here?

Example:
Alamo - San Antonio

Goliad
Gonzales
San Jacinto

As the frontier was settled head out west and check out Frontier, Texas Museum in Abilene, then catch Forts Phantom, Griffin, and Chadbourne.

...do it around deer season, and we will knock out a slickhead on the Coleman Place you were supposed to call me about, too!

My boy is in 7th this year too. Great idea! don't forget the Sam Houston monument off of I-45

Texas Ranger Museum in Waco.

See what it was really like - La Bahia.

Chicken Ranch La Grange Texas

That adventure for you and your son should make for some great conversations and memories

Hope the link below helps.

https://www.thc.texas.gov/

Thank you, everyone, this will be a good time.

I do need to get out there. I have another family who's looking with us. So now that's six families looking for a lease.

The Bob Bullock museum in Austin has a lot of good stuff as well.

Several places in the Panhandle to consider- Palo Duro Canyon, Adobe Walls, the Alibates flint quarry. Now that I stop and think about it, y'all might need to travel the whole summer, you might get a quarter of all the interesting, historical locations.
Palo Duro would be on my list though, the musical Texas tells the story.

https://texasfortstrail.com/plan-yo.../sites/fort-mckavett-state-historic-site

Visit some of the Forts on the old frontier.
Fort Davis, Fort McKavett, The Presidio at San Saba, Fort Chadbourne, Fort Concho. Fort Phantom, Fort Griffin.

This has a map and info. https://texasfortstrail.com/map
There is not much left of most, but there was not very much at the time they were in use.

Frontier Texas has some great virtual learning inter active videos. http://www.frontiertexas.com/

Don't forget the Mission Trail in west Texas

And Belknap as well as Richardson. Richardson is probably one of the best preserved plus you can eat at Herd's.

Frontier times museum in Bandera.

Palo Duro Canyon and the museum in Canyon and Washington-on the Brazos

Washington -on Brazos live event is the 21 Of August

Another good one, this place is special - Charles Goodnight's house (the real Woodrow F. Call) and his wife Mary Ann, who saved the bison from extinction.

Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight Ranch State Historic Site

Interesting thing, towards the end of his life, Charles Goodnight wouldn't sleep in the house, even in the winter. He slept outside on the 2nd story balcony.

Kimball Bend Park is a pretty cool spot that is not too far from you. One of the major crossings of the Chisolm Trail of the Brazos River.

http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasGhostTowns/KimballTexas/kimballtx.htm

Also just north of there, the Philip Nolan historical marker.

https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm451F_Erected_in_Memory_of_Phillip_Nolan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Nolan_(Texas_trader)

Love Texas history......

Another good idea is to have him pick out a few places that he is learning about at the time, and have him pick a few destinations.

X2 on all these places

The reenactment of the battle of Goliad is something to see for sure!

Nacogdoches, Oldest town in Texas. Go to the Old Stone Fort on the SFA campus.
Then take the short drive over to Alto and see the Caddo Mounds.

And stop and read some of the historical markers you pass. I forget if it was Tx Dot or the Texas Historical Commission used to have maps for day trips that would take you to a certain number of markers in a particular area. .

XIT Ranch museum in Dalhart

YO Ranch History

King Ranch History


Just get this done before "they" start teaching "other" history in our schools

we don't want your Son getting "WOKE"

How are Hayden’s Texas history lessons going?

We do something like this stuff. We drive different directions from Fort Worth with no actual destination in mind. Need to start taking more back roads and not just interstates. We’re both retired. I consider retirement the most boring job I’ve ever had.

We have rural property just South of Bowie with a trailer house, 4 wheelers, stock tanks, etc. Always something that needs doing there.

He did great. YO Ranch, Several stops on the way to Houston and on the way back. Hit Aggieland. And with all the travel baseball trips all over the state, he got to see a ton of stuff.

Fantastic

The Sam Houston museum in Huntsville is excellent. His grave is in Huntsville also.

Monument Hill in LaGrange is as well. The volunteers of the Meir expedition who drew a black bean were executed and are entombed there. (My 4th great grandfather drew a white bean and was spared.)
Those killed in the Dawson massacre are entombed there as well.

The Texas State Historical association Handbook of Texas online is an excellent source of information on Texas history.