In June 1832 the colony of Irish families settled along the Nueces River by John McMullen and James McGloin was linked to Mexico by completion of the Matamoros Road. Mexican officials sponsored a fiesta near this site as a goodwill gesture to the . . . — — Map (db m203714) HM
In the critical Civil War years, Banquete meant water, supplies, repairs and defenses to thousands on arid trips along the Cotton Road to Mexico.
The Cotton Road was well known, for it followed a segment of the historic "King's Highway" of . . . — — Map (db m193567) HM
A native of the French province of Alsace, Nicholas Bluntzer came to Texas at age nine with his parents and other Alsatian families led by colonizer Henri Castro. The Bluntzer family settled in DeWitt County, in an area along Coleto Creek which . . . — — Map (db m208170) HM
