Austin Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/cat/texas/austin Sun, 30 Aug 2020 14:16:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Austin Map Free Download http://toursmaps.com/austin-map-free-download.html http://toursmaps.com/austin-map-free-download.html#respond Sun, 30 Aug 2020 14:16:24 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=272604 Goaded by Mexican president Santa Anna’s increasingly repressive rule, Texians fought and won the revolution of 1835–1836 and declared themselves a republic, and the riverside trading post of Waterloo was renamed and made the new state’s capital. Jobs in the city attracted Latinos from the surrounding ranchlands, and by the mid-1870s some 300 new arrivals were living around Republic Square, then called Hemphill Square. This new Spanish-speaking community called it Guadalupe Park, but Anglos started referring to it as Mexican Park, and the area around it became known as Austin’s Mexico. Despite prejudice, a lack of city services, tough working

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