Mapping Texas Opens at the Witte Museum
Exhibition displays a collection of rare Texas history maps
BY By Priscilla Aguirre
Published: April 28, 2016
Three of the most important maps created by Stephen F. Austin are on display together for the first time in the Mapping Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Start State exhibition that opens at the Witte Museum on Friday, April 29. Along with Austin’s maps, the exhibit includes over 40 rare maps that date back as far as the 1600s. Bruce Shackelford, the museum’s South Texas curator, collaborated with the Texas General Land Office and the Houston-based Frank and Carol Holcomb map collection to put together the collection and says this may be the only time history buffs can see all of the maps in one place. “These maps show how history changed, how perceptions changed,” Shackelford said, speaking during a media preview on Thursday, April 28. “Some of these maps cannot be re-exhibited again