Annexation: Celebrating Texas Statehood
Exhibition
The annexation of Texas as the twenty-eighth member of the United States of America had a profound impact on world events and the course of democracy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition narrates the story of Texas as a Mexican colony and Republic, its campaign to join the United States, the vote for annexation, and the consequences of that vote. For more information, please contact the Gonzales County Jail Museum and THMD Visitor Center at 512.924.5850.
September 23–
October 18, 2013
October 18, 2013
Gonzales County Jail Museum and THMD Visitor Center
414 St. Lawrence St.
Gonzales, TX 78629
414 St. Lawrence St.
Gonzales, TX 78629
Map
Color sketch of the flag and seal for the Republic of Texas signed by Mirabeau Lamar, by Peter Krag, 1839. Texas State Library and Archives Commission.