Stephen F. Austin · Father of Texas, November 3, 1793-December 27, 1836. He planted the first Anglo-American colony in Texas · "The Old Three Hundred" · In his several colonies he settled more than a thousand families. He…
San Felipe de Austin was established in 1824 as the community and administrative headquarters of Stephen F. Austin's original Anglo American colony in Texas. The site for the township was chosen by Austin and the Baron Felipe Enrique Neri de Bastr…