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1897 7/3/1897 Blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson is born near Wortham.
1897 12/24/1897 Dutch community of Nederland (Jefferson County) is officially placed on the Texas map.
1898 5/15/1898 Teddy Roosevelt arrives in San Antonio to train the Rough Riders.
1898 5/30/1898 The Rough Riders leave San Antonio to charge up San Juan Hill.
1898 9/5/1898 Sarah Emma Edmonds Seelye, the woman spy of the Confederacy, who dressed as a man, Franklin Thompson, dies at La Porte.
1898 10/21/1898 Stanley Walker is born in Lampasas. He becomes a legendary New York City newspaper editor of the New York Herald Tribune.
1898 12/6/1898 Ben Boynton is born in Waco. He becomes the first native Texan to achieve All-American football status.
1899 1/7/1899 Legendary Texas Ranger, "Bigfoot Wallace," dies in Frio County.
1899 2/10/1899 Alamo Survivor Madam Candelaria dies at the age of 113.
1899 2/11/1899 Record low temperature is set in Tulia, Texas of -23 below zero degrees.
1899 2/12/1899 The temperature drops to -230 F. in Tulia, the coldest day on record for Texas.
1899 3/29/1899 James V. Allred, Texas governor from 1935 to 1939, is born in Bowie.
1899 6/17/1899 Rain begins falling in Brazos River area causing flooding 0f 12,000 square miles.
1899 6/29/1899 Rain ends in Brazos River area. Floods kill 284 people and cause $10 million in damage to the area.
1899 9/23/1899 U.S. Supreme Court Justice [1949-67] Tom C. Clark is born in Dallas.
1899 10/5/1899 Ned Green drives the first car in Texas. It takes five hours to make the trip from Dallas to Terrell, with an average of 6-mph.
1899 11/20/1899 African-American soldiers of Troop D of Ninth U.S.Cavalry allegedly fire on civilians at Rio Grande City, using a Gatling gun.
1899 6/1728/1899 A severe flood on the Brazos River floods 12,000 square miles and kills almost 300 persons, rising above all flood gauges.
1900 4/28/1900 Southwest Texas Sacred Harp Singing Convention is organized at McMahan, Texas.
1900 5/8/1900 A Category-4 hurricane at Galveston kills 6,000-8,000 people.
1900 5/26/1900 The famous Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers is dissolved.
1900 9/8/1900 Henri de Castro founds Castroville, bringing the first colonists to his land grant on September 3rd.
1900 9/8/1900 The great Galveston storm and flood destroys half the city and kills thousands of people.
1901 1/10/1901 Oil discovered at Spindletop, near Beaumont, as the Lucas gusher comes in.
1901 1/14/1901 Clara Driscoll writes the San Antonio Express newspaper in a plea to save the Alamo.
1901 3/7/1901 The Texas legislature declares the Bluebonnet the state flower.
1901 7/5/1901 John Henry Kirby charters his lumber company, which is to become the largest lumber manufacturer in Texas and the southern U.S.
1902 1/29/1902 Galveston jurors file a complaint that they have to sleep on the floor in the jury rooms.
1902 2/21/1902 Dalhart becomes county seat of Dallam County; Dalhart was at the center of the Dust Bowl.