SAPL : February 23 In San Antonio History...

Press release from the San Antonio Public Library:

23 February 2022

1861
The Referendum on Secession takes place and Texans head to the polls to vote. Bexar County votes to secede, 827 to 709. Nearby counties of Blanco, Gillespie, Medina and Uvalde do not.

1929
Fire, apparently started by defective wiring, threatened mail and federal records and did $30,000 damage to San Antonio’s historic federal building in Alamo Plaza (right).

2013
William Barret Travis’s “Victory or Death” letter, written from the Alamo on February 24, 1836, is returned to the old mission where it will be on display until March 7.

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