Out. Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast.

Before I began, I want to thank everyone for the tremendous response to the launch of the podcast.

I released an introductory episode and three others and had hundreds of downloads just

the first few days.

Feedback has been tremendous and I very much appreciate it.

Now if I've asked for suggestions about Texas history questions or topics you'd like me to address

and this episode 4 is in response to one of those suggestions. A listener from Houston wanted to learn more about the capitals of Texas.

At first blush that might seem easy, but like so many things in Texas history, it's a little bit complicated but but also very interesting. So interesting in fact that I've decided to split it into two different episodes. So this is episode four, part one, of the capitals of Texas.

To start our discussion about the capitals of Texas, we need to go back to 1836 and get wise

about Texas.

In episode 1, we discussed San Felipe de Austin which was the

capital of Austin's colony but we're going to start discussing capitals as of

March 2nd 1836 which is the day Texas declared her independence from Mexico and elected a provisional

government.

There was a convention held at Washington on the Brazos, which was located on the

Brazos River in what's now Washington County.

The Declaration of Independence was adopted on March the 2nd,

and they signed it on March 3rd.

On March 4th, they formed a committee to organize the military,

and Sam Houston was appointed to Commander-in-Chief.

From there, the Convention dragged a few days while the members squabbled over how to fund the

revolution, how to draft a constitution, and while everyone was eagerly awaiting word from the alamo.

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