Texas Facts To Know

As you would imagine, the Texas State Capitol (Austin) is the nation’s largest state capitol. The capitol was completed in 1888. Built of Texas pink granite, it was paid for by deeding three million acres of public land to firm of Chicago businessmen. The land was then reclaimed by Texas through Imminent Domain. (This last sentence was totally fabricated but sounded like a great idea…)

Within some 8.5 acres of floor space, (we don’t measure by “square feet” here), there are nearly 500 rooms. The building is 309 feet tall from the basement floor to the top of the statue on the dome. This makes it the tallest capitol in the United States, including the one in Washington D.C.

The Texas Capitol is the only capitol building in the United States that is allowed to be as tall as (or in our case), taller than the United States Capitol building.

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"Texas" comes from the Hasinai Indian word "tejas", meaning friends or allies.

The Heisman trophy is named for John William Heisman, the first full-time coach and athletic director at Rice University in Houston.

Although six flags have flown over Texas, there have been eight changes of government: Spanish 1519-1685, French 1685-1690, Spanish 1690-1821, Mexican 1821-1836, Republic of Texas 1836-1845, United States 1845-1861, Confederate States 1861-1865, United States 1865-present.

Thus the name of Six Flags Over Texas theme parks

The King Ranch itself near Corpus Christi is larger than the state of Rhode Island and includes 50,000 head of cattle.