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Colbert's Ferry was an important Red River crossing between Texas and Indian Territory from about 1853 to 1899. Both the Texas Road and the Butterfield Overland Mail route crossed here. It was located on the Texas Road about 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of present–day Colbert , Bryan County, Oklahoma . [ 3 ]
The ferry, formerly Chabanan Ferry circa 1795, was a major crossing between what was to become the states of Texas and Louisiana, across a point where the Gaines-Pendleton Bridge is now located, at the site of the old town of Pendleton, [1] near Milam, Texas. The road leading to the ferry was part of the El Camino Real highway, a series of ...
The present-day location of this ferry can trace its origins back to 1822 when it was constructed by Nathaniel Lynch just below the confluence of the San Jacinto River and the Buffalo Bayou and was known as Lynch's Ferry. [6] The ferry was used by the Republic of Texas troops fighting Mexican forces in the Battle of San Jacinto April 1836. [6]
[2] [3] The ferry connected what would become the community of Lynchburg, on the east side of the crossing with the road to Harrisburg. At the western landing is the location of the San Jacinto Battlefield , where Texan forces under Sam Houston defeated Antonio López de Santa Anna 's Mexican forces in 1836.
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El Camino Real de los Tejas routes in Spanish Texas. Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, established the corridor for what became El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera in multiple expeditions to East Texas between 1686 and 1690 to find and destroy a French fort near Lavaca Bay, [2] established by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on what de León considered to be Spanish lands.
The Senate’s transportation budget doesn’t include items like the $4 million for work on Kitsap Transit’s hydrofoil ferry or Nance’s ferry system work group and study. “It'll be ...
Following the war, the United States soon developed an expanded system of more modern fortifications to provide the first line of land defense against the threat of attack from European powers. [12] Outside of defense issues, however, federal power over domestic "internal improvements" away from the coasts and among the states did not gain ...