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Texan Silesian. An example of Texan Silesian is a letter written from Texas to Poland in c. 1855. It is written in the standard Polish orthography of the time, with marked use of nasal vowels. Texan Silesian [a] is a dialect of the Silesian language used by descendants of immigrant Silesians in American settlements from 1852 [1] to the present.
Gothic Revival, Polish Colonial. NRHP reference No. 76002043 [ 2] Added to NRHP. May 13, 1976. Hand-painted welcome sign welcoming visitors to town. Panna Maria ( Polish for Virgin Mary) is a small unincorporated community in Karnes County, Texas, United States. It is the oldest Polish settlement in the United States.
Cestohowa is located at 29°00′36″N 97°56′05″W (29.0099721, -97.9347253). It is situated along FM 3191, one mile west of State Highway 123 in northern Karnes County, approximately five miles north of Panna Maria and 50 miles southeast of San Antonio. [3]
The history of Poles in the United States dates to the American Colonial era. Poles have lived in present-day United States territories for over 400 years—since 1608. There are 10 million Americans of Polish descent in the U.S. today. Polish Americans have always been the largest group of Slavic origin in the United States.
Spanish Texas ( Tejas) was a colonial province within the northeastern mainland region of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. On its southern edge, Tejas was bordered by the provinces of Coahuila and Nuevo Santander. The boundary between the provinces was set at the line formed by the Medina River and the Nueces River, 100 miles (161 km) northeast of ...
History of Texas. Indigenous people lived in what is now Texas more than 10,000 years ago, as evidenced by the discovery of the remains of prehistoric Leanderthal Lady. In 1519, the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors in the region of North America now known as Texas found the region occupied by numerous Native American tribes.
Polonia was a small rural community located in northwestern Caldwell County, Texas, United States. The ghost town is six miles northwest of Lockhart. History. The area was settled sometime in the second half of the 19th century by Polish immigrants (most likely in the 1880s and the 1890s). The town population expanded and built more buildings.
Czech Texans are residents of the state of Texas who are of Czech ancestry. Large scale Czech immigration to Texas began after the Revolutions of 1848 changed the political climate in Central Europe, and after a brief interruption during the U.S. Civil War, continued until the First World War. [1] Concentrated in Central Texas, Czech Texans ...