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These are the 250 most recent entries we've added to the Handbook of Texas.


  1. Martinez, Matt Gayton, Sr. 1 week ago

  2. Turner, Sylvester 1 week ago

  3. McQueen, Justice Ellis, Jr. [L. Q. Jones] 2 weeks ago

  4. Alaniz, Leonardo [Leo Najo] 3 weeks ago

  5. Texas-Oklahoma League 3 weeks ago

  6. Chase, Clarence Cornell 3 weeks ago

  7. Texas Military Forces Museum 4 weeks ago

  8. Neques 4 weeks ago

  9. Loring, Porter Fred 4 weeks ago

  10. Gransot 4 weeks ago

  11. McAlester, Virginia Wallace Savage Talkington 1 month ago

  12. Texas Association 1 month ago

  13. Horlen, Joel Edward [Joe] 1 month ago

  14. Grote, Gerald Wayne [Jerry] 1 month ago

  15. Forbes, Edward Ritchey 2 months ago

  16. Dunbar Library 2 months ago

  17. West Dixie League 2 months ago

  18. Central Texas League 2 months ago

  19. Hooper, Willard Tobe 2 months ago

  20. Short, Thomas H. 2 months ago

  21. Jones, Richard Percy, Jr. [Dickie] 2 months ago

  22. Hart, James Pinckney 2 months ago

  23. Rio Grande Valley League 2 months ago

  24. Forrest, Frederic Fenimore, Jr. 2 months ago

  25. Japanese Macaque 2 months ago

  26. Ramos, Romana Rios 2 months ago

  27. Herbert, John F. 2 months ago

  28. East Texas League 2 months ago

  29. Lee, Roswell Walter 2 months ago

  30. Dantzler, Louise Byrdie [Mary Brian] 3 months ago

  31. Caldwell, Earl Welton 3 months ago

  32. West Texas-New Mexico League 3 months ago

  33. Stevens, Chloe [Aunt Cloe] 3 months ago

  34. Reasner, Charles A. II 4 months ago

  35. Big State League 4 months ago

  36. Hain, Samuel Lewis Williams 4 months ago

  37. Vela, Gerard Roland 4 months ago

  38. El Paso Zoo 4 months ago

  39. Chiles, Harrell Edmonds [Eddie] 4 months ago

  40. Matthews, Jay Arlon, Jr. 4 months ago

  41. Legacies 4 months ago

  42. Low, Samuel Donaldson Warren, Jr. 4 months ago

  43. Old Nacogdoches Road to Orcoquisac 5 months ago

  44. Bartholomew Plan (Dallas) 5 months ago

  45. Shary Heights 5 months ago

  46. Machuca, Juan de la Cruz 5 months ago

  47. Republican Army of the North 5 months ago

  48. Friedkin, Joseph Frank 5 months ago

  49. Zernial, Gus Edward 5 months ago

  50. Philley, David Earl 5 months ago

  51. Allen, Jacqueline Presson [Jay] 5 months ago

  52. Canoso [El Canoso, White Hair] 6 months ago

  53. Latham, Johnie Louise 6 months ago

  54. Fain, Ferris Roy 6 months ago

  55. Yauger, Laura Fay McCormick 6 months ago

  56. Humphreys, Robert Wade 6 months ago

  57. Morris, Robert Buckner 6 months ago

  58. Peña, Alberto Antonio, Jr. [Albert] 7 months ago

  59. Pendleton, William Smartt 7 months ago

  60. Cousins, Sue Margaret 7 months ago

  61. Karchmer, Sylvan Nathan 7 months ago

  62. Wallace, John Leroy [Red] 7 months ago

  63. Collins, Rice Woods 7 months ago

  64. Jowell, George Radcliffe, Sr. 7 months ago

  65. Hughes, Moses 7 months ago

  66. Crayton, James Winfield, Jr. 7 months ago

  67. The Alamo (1960) 7 months ago

  68. Procter, Ben Hamill 7 months ago

  69. Tinhioüen 7 months ago

  70. Wohlford, William Ballard 7 months ago

  71. Morris, Burrell Wilson 7 months ago

  72. Gordon, Alonzo Peyton 7 months ago

  73. Lary, Robert Yale 7 months ago

  74. Busby, James Franklin 7 months ago

  75. Bell Helicopter 8 months ago

  76. Buck, James Madison 8 months ago

  77. School of Automobile Mechanics [S.A.M.] 8 months ago

  78. Fuente Fernández, Pedro Francisco de la 8 months ago

  79. Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art [CASETA] 9 months ago

  80. Bland, Sandra Annette [Sandy] 9 months ago

  81. Bradford, Edgar Lee, Jr. 9 months ago

  82. Foreman, George Edward [Big George] 9 months ago

  83. Pabst, Frederick Christian 9 months ago

  84. Adelberg, Norman Covin [Norman Alden] 9 months ago

  85. Bullard, Henry Adams 9 months ago

  86. Keyes, Evelyn Louise 9 months ago

  87. Wedgeworth, Elizabeth Ann 9 months ago

  88. Collins, Ira Waymen 9 months ago

  89. The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 10 months ago

  90. Bomar, William Purinton, Jr. 10 months ago

  91. Robinson, William Edward, Jr. [Eddie] 10 months ago

  92. Pals Social Club 10 months ago

  93. Bryan Museum 10 months ago

  94. Lee, Francis Lightfoot 10 months ago

  95. Sweeney, Charles Cornellus 10 months ago

  96. Van Cleve, Olen Jackson, Jr. [Jack] 10 months ago

  97. Awe, Robert James 10 months ago

  98. Indigent Health Care and Treatment Act 10 months ago

  99. Tate, John Waddy 10 months ago

  100. Nuestra Clinica del Valle 10 months ago

  101. Starnes, Jerry Cecil 10 months ago

  102. Selene Club 10 months ago

  103. Macko, Joseph John 10 months ago

  104. Dacus, Melvin Ogle [Mel] 11 months ago

  105. Burks, Doric Ball 11 months ago

  106. Morrow, William Henry 11 months ago

  107. Camp Lawson 11 months ago

  108. Gilley, Mickey Leroy 11 months ago

  109. Wachtel, Paul Horine 11 months ago

  110. Eleanor Roosevelt in Texas 11 months ago

  111. Riggs, Walter Lee 11 months ago

  112. Greek Community (Fort Worth) 11 months ago

  113. Rocket Club 11 months ago

  114. Temple, James Roland 11 months ago

  115. Blackwell School 11 months ago

  116. Brackenridge Park Golf Course 11 months ago

  117. Malloy, Adam Gale 11 months ago

  118. Olsen, Carl Edwin [Pat] 11 months ago

  119. Savage, Wallace Hamilton 11 months ago

  120. Crow, John David 11 months ago

  121. Tejano Legend Pioneers Organization 1 year ago

  122. Tinslee Lewis Case 1 year ago

  123. House Bill 3162 1 year ago

  124. Goodson, Whitsitt Ruel [Dub] 1 year ago

  125. Casino Beach 1 year ago

  126. Lyons, Theodore Amar [Ted] 1 year ago

  127. Morgan, Joe Leonard 1 year ago

  128. Mancuso, August Rodney [Gus] 1 year ago

  129. Crosby, Olive Kathryn Grandstaff 1 year ago

  130. Patten, Nathan 1 year ago

  131. Reynolds, Carl Nettles 1 year ago

  132. Koy, Ernest Anyz, Sr. [Ernie] 1 year ago

  133. Hughson, Cecil Carlton, Jr. [Tex] 1 year ago

  134. Bell, Thomas 1 year ago

  135. Mitchell, Lucille Elizabeth Reiser [Lu] 1 year ago

  136. Texas Business Women 1 year ago

  137. Loise 1 year ago

  138. Burleson, May Jane Walker [Jennie May] 1 year ago

  139. Merritt, Susan 1 year ago

  140. Hood, Dorothy Rose 1 year ago

  141. Villaseñor, Lois Peña 1 year ago

  142. Mays, Osceola Douglas 1 year ago

  143. Cook, Clara Gathright 1 year ago

  144. Distin, Vivian Dorraine Liberto Cash 1 year ago

  145. Chamberlin, Lily Pearl Ponder 1 year ago

  146. Boggess, Lynton Ross [Dusty] 1 year ago

  147. Smith, Judith Hart 1 year ago

  148. Davis, Ann Bradford 1 year ago

  149. Vincent, Albert Linder [Al] 1 year ago

  150. Beasley, Norma Lea 1 year ago

  151. Casa Mañana 1 year ago

  152. Ballanfant, Edward Lee 1 year ago

  153. Kirk, Willie Mae Jones 1 year ago

  154. Helmond, Katherine Marie 1 year ago

  155. Hieskell, Charles Colson 1 year ago

  156. Duvall, Shelley Alexis 1 year ago

  157. Bluebonnet Brigade 1 year ago

  158. Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research [TIRR Memorial Hermann] 1 year ago

  159. Texas Advance Directives Act 1 year ago

  160. Women's Cooperative Home 1 year ago

  161. Streams and Valleys, Inc. 1 year ago

  162. Williams, Lillian Richard 1 year ago

  163. Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant 1 year ago

  164. Shipman, Sally Raye Stevens 1 year ago

  165. Negley, William 1 year ago

  166. Omega House 1 year ago

  167. Delgado, Jacinto 1 year ago

  168. Marion, Anne Burnett Windfohr 1 year ago

  169. Fort Worth Gazette 1 year ago

  170. Lowe, Ralph Frank 1 year ago

  171. Lubbock, Adele Francoise Baron 1 year ago

  172. Smith, Ima Mae 1 year ago

  173. Wood, Jane Parson Roberts 1 year ago

  174. Bastrop Christian Church 1 year ago

  175. Burns, Mary Lynn Ann [Marilyn] 1 year ago

  176. Conopus Club of San Antonio 1 year ago

  177. Shields, Benjamin Glover 1 year ago

  178. Brush Battalion 1 year ago

  179. Lawson, William Alexander, Jr. 1 year ago

  180. Great Panhandle Indian Scare 1 year ago

  181. Welch, Louie William 1 year ago

  182. Capital Punishment in Texas 1 year ago

  183. Salmon, Joseph 1 year ago

  184. Davis, Henry T. 1 year ago

  185. Boone, James Henry 1 year ago

  186. Tilley, Phyllis Ann Jones 1 year ago

  187. Jaime, Adela Hernandez 1 year ago

  188. Waits, Edward McShane 1 year ago

  189. Kreische Brewery-Monument Hill State Historic Sites 1 year ago

  190. Lanham, Sarah Beona Meng 1 year ago

  191. Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts 1 year ago

  192. Brown, Robert William [Bobby] 1 year ago

  193. Lawther, Joseph Earl 1 year ago

  194. Old Iron Bridge 1 year ago

  195. Ratliff, Archillus P. 1 year ago

  196. Brooks, Allen 1 year ago

  197. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Franchise) 1 year ago

  198. Harris, Marcelite Cecile Jordan 1 year ago

  199. Ramirez, Rosa Miranda 1 year ago

  200. Critchett, Belle Christie Ferguson 1 year ago

  201. Married Ladies Social, Art and Charity Club of America 1 year ago

  202. Club Femenino Chapultepec 1 year ago

  203. Forbes, Margaret Anne Mueller Swan 1 year ago

  204. Harrington, Gladys Haggard Bishop 1 year ago

  205. Crowdus, John William 1 year ago

  206. Brannen, Carl Andrew, Sr. 1 year ago

  207. Gay Chicano Caucus 1 year ago

  208. Ryan, Frank Beall 1 year ago

  209. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 1 year ago

  210. Amador, Vicente Ferrer Enríquez de 1 year ago

  211. DuPont, Margaret Evelyn Osborne 1 year ago

  212. Holbrook, Marybecca Sullivan Tilotta [Becky] 1 year ago

  213. Burrus, Elizabeth Corine Parris [Eliza] 1 year ago

  214. Routh, Sylvia 1 year ago

  215. Towler, Annie McLean Moores 1 year ago

  216. Dunn, Mary 1 year ago

  217. Hall, Constant Kirkland 1 year ago

  218. Hardaway, Samuel George 1 year ago

  219. Kent, Loren 1 year ago

  220. Arizpe, José Ignacio de 1 year ago

  221. Cockrell, Egbert Railey 1 year ago

  222. Morrison, Mary Francine Reese 1 year ago

  223. Texas Association Against Sexual Assault 1 year ago

  224. Schneider, Rose Grundfest 1 year ago

  225. Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe, Inc. 1 year ago

  226. McDonald, Nancy Jane Hanks 1 year ago

  227. La Cruz Blanca (Constitucionalista/Nacional) 1 year ago

  228. La Cruz Blanca Neutral 1 year ago

  229. Estrada, Ignacio [Nacho] 1 year ago

  230. Sam, Fung T. 1 year ago

  231. Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center 1 year ago

  232. L'Engle, William Johnson 1 year ago

  233. Bryce, William John 1 year ago

  234. Dunkins, Dennis Leon 1 year ago

  235. McSween, John 1 year ago

  236. Loving, George Barnet 1 year ago

  237. Smith, Joseph Rowe, Jr. 1 year ago

  238. Tony's Restaurant 1 year ago

  239. Vallone, Anthony Vincent, Jr. [Tony] 1 year ago

  240. Nash, Ernest Lea [Ted Healy] 1 year ago

  241. Ripley Arnold Housing Project 1 year ago

  242. Vandergriff, Tom Joe [Tommy] 1 year ago

  243. The Gas Station 1 year ago

  244. McKinney Roughs Nature Park 1 year ago

  245. Ms. Pearl 1 year ago

  246. Hillaire, Michael 1 year ago

  247. Guersec 1 year ago

  248. Seven Seas Marine Life Park 1 year ago

  249. Woodruff, Clyde H. 1 year ago

  250. Gladden, Donald Charles 1 year ago

Commemorating 250 years of American independence through the stories, people, and places that shaped Texas and the nation.

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, Texans have a unique opportunity to reflect on the state’s role in the American story. Through exhibitions, programs, educational initiatives, and community events across Texas, Texas America250 encourages celebration, reflection, and commemoration at both local and statewide levels. At the Texas State Historical Association, we are proud to support this important moment through our mission-driven work in history education and public engagement, including Texas History Day, and we invite students, educators, and communities to explore this milestone in meaningful ways.

On July 4, 2026, we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the greatest nation in the history of the world. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Long may these ideals live in the heart of every Texan and every American. May God bless all who have defended our freedoms that we enjoy each day. And God bless the United States of America.

Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas

Commemorating 250 years of American independence through the stories, people, and places that shaped Texas and the nation.

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, Texans have a unique opportunity to reflect on the state’s role in the American story. Through exhibitions, programs, educational initiatives, and community events across Texas, Texas America250 encourages celebration, reflection, and commemoration at both local and statewide levels. At the Texas State Historical Association, we are proud to support this important moment through our mission-driven work in history education and public engagement, including Texas History Day, and we invite students, educators, and communities to explore this milestone in meaningful ways.

On July 4, 2026, we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the greatest nation in the history of the world. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Long may these ideals live in the heart of every Texan and every American. May God bless all who have defended our freedoms that we enjoy each day. And God bless the United States of America.

Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas

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