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Did you know that the Capitol Building located in Austin, Texas is the biggest one in the United States?\u00a0\u00a0 Made from Texas pink granite, the dome of this building stands even taller than the one in the nation’s Capitol in Washington D.C.\u00a0 Actually it stands a whole seven feet taller.<\/p>\n
Texas is the largest state in the continental United States.\u00a0 You could fit 220 Rhode Islands into the state, or all of the New England States and Ohio, New York, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.\u00a0 Alaska is the only state larger than Texas.<\/p>\n
The oldest remaining public building in downtown Austin still remains.\u00a0 It is known as the Governor’s mansion, built in 1856.
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\nTexas stretches about 800 miles in each direction, totaling over 268,000 square miles in all.\u00a0\u00a0 Texas coastlines stretch along the Gulf of Mexico and totals 624 miles.<\/p>\n
There is more land farmed in Texas than in any other state.\u00a0 Texas is the home of the biggest single ranch in the United States today.\u00a0 There are more farms in Texas than any other state.\u00a0 Texan’s are known for growing cotton, rice and wheat.\u00a0 Texas leads the country in beef cattle.\u00a0 They are also leaders in producing sorghum.<\/p>\n
Texas has more wild flowers than any other state in the United States.\u00a0 The Bluebonnet is recognized as the state flower for Texas.<\/p>\n
Texas has adopted the Pecan tree as the state tree and you might likely find a mockingbird sitting on one of the branches.\u00a0 The mockingbird is known as the Texas state bird.<\/p>\n
There are four national forests in Texas(Angelina, Davy Crockett, Sabine and Sam Houston).\u00a0 Two national parks call Texas home(Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains).\u00a0 Texas also has one national monument, (Alibates Flint Quarries), and one national preserve (The Big Thicket).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Sam Rayburn Reservoir in Eastern Texas is the largest body of water completely within the boundaries of Texas.<\/p>\n
The tallest point in Texas can be found at the Guadalupe Peak.\u00a0 It is\u00a0 8,751 feet tall.<\/p>\n
Texas has three existing Indian reservations.\u00a0 The first is located between Livingston and Woodville in Eastern Texas, known as the Alabama-Coushatta Reservation.\u00a0 The second is a Tigua Indian reservation called Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and it is near El Paso.\u00a0 The third remaining reserve is in Maverick County, known as the Kickapoo Reservation.\u00a0 However, of the approximately 65,000 Indians that live in Texas, most live in areas that are not on a reservation.\u00a0 Texas ranks sixth among the states for Indian populations.<\/p>\n
Texas has 254 counties with only one named for a woman (Angeline).\u00a0 The largest county with 6,204 square miles is Brewster and the smallest county is Rockwell with only 147 square miles.<\/p>\n
Texas has over 700 local history museums.<\/p>\n
Over 2000 sites in Texas are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.\u00a0 These include historic courthouses, frontier forts, Spanish missions, and individual homes.\u00a0 The Alamo is a Spanish mission and was established in San Antonio in 1718.\u00a0 It was the first mission established in Texas.\u00a0 This is where Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and many others died fighting Mexico to free Texas.<\/p>\n
These are just a few of the interesting things you will find in your quest for knowledge of this great state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did you know that the Capitol Building located in Austin, Texas is the biggest one in the United States?\u00a0\u00a0 Made from Texas pink granite, the dome of this building stands even taller than the one in the nation’s Capitol in Washington D.C.\u00a0 Actually it stands a whole seven feet taller. Texas is the largest state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}