Nacogdoches, TX news and local guide

In the spring of 1779 the Spanish trader Antonio Gil Y'Barbo led a group back to Nacogdoches, which Spain designated a pueblo that summer. As lieutenant governor, Y'Barbo set its rules and laid out streets centered on the crossing of El Camino Real and La Calle del Norte, and he built a stone house for his trade, later called the Old Stone Fort, which became a gateway from the United States to the Texas frontier. Nacogdoches has flown under nine flags, the six flags of Texas plus those of the Magee-Gutierrez Republic, the Long Republic and the Fredonian Rebellion. Americans began settling there in 1820, and Texas's first English-language newspaper was published there, though a Spanish-language paper came earlier. In 1832 settlers united at the Battle of Nacogdoches in support of federalist government and drove the Mexican army from East Texas. Thomas Jefferson Rusk, a hero of San Jacinto, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and one of Texas's first two U.S. senators, was among its leading early settlers. Sources Wikipedia: Nacogdoches, Texas