Things to do / Travel Guide
- Texas is the only state to have had six national flags fly over its soil: those of Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederacy, and the United States.
- The privately-owned King Ranch, near Corpus Christi, is larger than the entire state of Rhode Island.
- More wool comes from Texas than any other state.
- Texas was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845 and is the only state to have entered the Union by treaty.
- All the lakes in Texas are man-made other than Caddo Lake, on the Louisiana border.
- The name Texas comes from the Hasinai Indians. The word means “allies” or “friends.
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