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DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah J Chesney.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Founded in 1823 by Stephen F. Austin as the capital of the recently established Austin Colony in Mexican Texas, the town of San Felipe de Austin was a melting pot of ideas, people, and languages from across Mexico and the United States. As talk turned toward revolution in 1835 and 1836 San Felipe de Austin became a flashpoint, and both a real and a symbolic target of General Santa Ana...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Chesney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Shifting Borders: Early-19th Century Archeology in the Trans-Mississippi South" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Founded in 1823 by Stephen F. Austin as the capital of the recently established Austin Colony in Mexican Texas the town of San Felipe de Austin was a melting pot of ideas, people, and languages from across Mexico and the United States. As the Texas Revolution drew nearer in the 1830s residents...