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Several county names stand out on the map of Texas that were hoary with age a century and a half before the word Texas began to develop into geographical significance. These names were probably here before Columbus discovered Amer ica. At any rate Coronado and the followers of De Soto found them here with a well established local identity within less than fifty years after that event.
The history of the State begins with the year 1528, during that epoch-making period when Henry VIII was laying his plans for a divorce from Catherine; when Luther was trans lating the Bible into German; several years before Calvin wrote his Institutes of the Christian Religion, and before Michael An gelo painted his masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel at Rome.
Queen Elizabeth had not been born, and a quarter of a cen tury had to come and go before Shakespeare first saw the light.
Comparing it with some of the older dates in American his tory it was seventy-nine years before the first settlement at Jamestown, ninety-two years before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, and more than two hundred years before George Washington was born.
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Several county names stand out on the map of Texas that were hoary with age a century and a half before the word Texas began to develop into geographical significance. These names were probably here before Columbus discovered Amer ica. At any rate Coronado and the followers of De Soto found them here with a well established local identity within less than fifty years after that event.
The history of the State begins with the year 1528, during that epoch-making period when Henry VIII was laying his plans for a divorce from Catherine; when Luther was trans lating the Bible into German; several years before Calvin wrote his Institutes of the Christian Religion, and before Michael An gelo painted his masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel at Rome.
Queen Elizabeth had not been born, and a quarter of a cen tury had to come and go before Shakespeare first saw the light.
Comparing it with some of the older dates in American his tory it was seventy-nine years before the first settlement at Jamestown, ninety-two years before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, and more than two hundred years before George Washington was born.
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