Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo was occupied for only a few years, from roughly 1721 to 1726, before being abandoned, according to the university. The surrounding area already was shaped by ...

The discovery of a long-lost mission site has led to new historical insights that bridge Jackson County in Texas with 18th-century Spain. Archaeologists from Texas Tech University and the Texas ...

JACKSON COUNTY, TEXAS—According to a statement released by Texas Tech University, a team of archaeologists from Texas Tech University and the Texas Historical Commission have discovered the site of ...

An archaeology team from Texas Tech University in collaboration with Texas Historical Commission archaeologists Kay Hindes, Jim Bruseth, Tiffany Osburn and Brad Jones found the lost site of Mission ...

An archeology team from Texas Tech in collaboration with Texas Historical Commission archeologists found the lost site of a centuries-old French and Spanish mission in early December. The site - ...

An archeology team from Texas Tech University in collaboration with Texas Historical Commission archeologists found the lost site of Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo in early December.

Robert Rene Beauregard of Naples, Florida passed away peacefully at the age of 83 on November 29th, 2025. Robert was born in Chicopee, MA on November 25th 1942. He resided in Massachusetts including ...

A True American Original Has Passed. Robert (Bob) Houle, 87 of Durham, passed Sunday after a series of unfortunate health conditions. His was a very active and adventurous life. He enjoyed traveling, ...

Louisiana was accepted by Congress as a state on April 30, 1812, however, the territory had been occupied more than 100 years before its statehood. Spain is attributed as the first European nation to ...

In the 17 th century, Europeans came to what they called the New World and started divvying it up and parceling it out under the rubric of ‘exploration’. One particularly grasping Frenchman was ...