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The
DRT promotes the celebration of Texas Honor Days. Members are
encouraged to fly the Texas flag on each of these Honor Days.
Stephen F.
Austin’s Birthday [November 3, 1793]
Known as the Father of Texas,
Stephen F. Austin carried on his father, Moses’ work to
establish the first Texas Anglo-American Colony “The Old 300,”
by bringing 300 families to a part of Mexico in what is now
known as Texas. Austin was imprisoned in a Mexican jail
for defending the colonist’s rights. He was a man of patience
and diplomacy, a “thinker,” who made things happen. Each year a
celebration is held at the site of his death in Brazoria County.
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