Black plaque № 25908

Austin, TX, United States

The Texas Capitol. [1964 Recorded Texas Historic Landmark inscription: Texas State Capitol. Nation's largest state capitol building. Financed by exchange of 3,000,000 acres of Panhandle land. Built of Texas pink granite, 1882-88.] Austin became the capital of Texas Jan. 19, 1840, and this hill was p

latted as Capitol Square. A modest statehouse built here in the 1850s soon developed structural flaws. The Constitutional Convention of 1876 set aside 3,000,000 acres of public land to finance another

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