Randall Rather Building - The 3rd Cotton Exchange In The US - Did NOT burn in Gone With the Wind The Cotton Industry was destroyed in 1920 by a Agricultural Biological Disaster. Did I mention the ghost in the ballroom?? |
Gonzales County Courthouse Tried Here - Hung Next Door Ropes aren't just for Rodeos!! This hemp ain't for smoking!! |
Confederate Memorial / Confederate Square "Lest We Forget" or "We'll Never Forget!!" |
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COME AND TAKE IT FLAG |
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LINKS TO THE MANSIONS, HOMES AND GUEST RANCH IN HISTORIC GONZALES THAT WILL MAKE YOU WELCOME |
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An Organization of Good Friends Who Love to Make NEW Friends!! |
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and the doors of their historic mansions, homes, and cattle ranch to guests who wish to experience the history of the county and town with the same name ... Gonzales ... Where the First Shot of the Texas Revolution was fired; Sent the only relief volunteers to fight at the Battle of the Alamo; Where famous Confederate units were organized and sent to war; The great Longhorn Cattle Drives of Old Texas fame started from here; Where famous outlaws like John Wesley Hardin rode and lived; Where Gonzales cotton was once King and shipped to the world Center of the largest Cattle and Chicken Industry in the World; Home of a new multi-million dollar Rodeo Arena and complex; AND the Gonzales Municial Airport, recently remodeled into a full service airport. |
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ride horses on the ranch they rode on, walk the streets they walked and FEEL THE HISTORY!! |
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Our new multi-million dollar covered rodeo arena has events every weekend .. just click the link If you are going to watch cowboys, why not stay in the homes and mansions of the Cattlemen who put the "C" in Cowboy - we even have a guest ranch where you can ride like a cowboy, with cowboys |
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"COME AND TAKE IT" FLAG |
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"COME AND TAKE IT" CANNON |
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Right Click on Image select "View Image (Texas Gonzales.JPG)" |
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Update 20 January 2011