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The current Texas State Capitol is the fourth building to serve that purpose in Austin. The first was a two-room wooden structure (located on the northeast corner of 8th St and Colorado St) which served as the national capitol of the Texas Republic and continued as the seat of government upon Texas' admission to the Union.
The Oasis Restaurant is the largest outdoor restaurant in Texas, which promotes itself as the "Sunset Capital of Texas" with its terraced views looking West over Lake Travis. [224] Birdie's, a counter-service restaurant and wine bar that opened in 2021, was Food & Wine's 2023 Restaurant of the Year. [225] [226] [227]
Monclova, first provincial capital of Texas, 1686, and again in 1833; Los Adaes (modern day Robeline, Louisiana), 1721 to 1772; San Antonio, 1772 to 1824; San Felipe de Austin, now the San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site, headquarters of the Colony of Texas
This is a list of state and territorial capitols in the United States, the building or complex of buildings from which the government of each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and the organized territories of the United States, exercise its authority.
Capital of the U.S. provisional government of New Mexico 1846–1850. 1850: Capital of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico 1850–1912. Santa Fe: 1912: Capital of the State of New Mexico. New York Statehood in 1776: Fort Amsterdam Nieuw-Amsterdam New-York Nieuw-Oranje New-York: 1625: Capital of the Dutch colony of Nieuw-Nederland (Novum Belgium). 1652
Teague, Texas, was named the lightning capital of the U.S. with over 1,900 occurrences of lightning per square mile in 2024, according to Vaisala, a global technology company.
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During the summer of 1845, Anson Jones, Houston's successor as president, called a constitutional convention meeting in Austin, approved the annexation of Texas to the United States and named Austin the state capital until 1850, at which time the voters of Texas were to express their preference in a general election. After resuming its role as ...