Map of Castro's Colony — Bexar District

J. Kitian Potschiusky, Map of Castro's Colony — Bexar District, San Antonio, 1851, Map #1962, Map Collection, Archives and Records Program, Texas G...

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J. Kitian Potschiusky, Map of Castro's Colony — Bexar District, San Antonio, 1851, Map #1962, Map Collection, Archives and Records Program, Texas General Land Office, Austin, TX.Henri Castro, a French-born empresario, established Castro's Colony to settle 600 families in two south-central Texas grants. He first came to the United States as the French Consul in Providence, Rhode Island, and became an American citizen in 1827. After returning to France, he became a land agent for the failed Lafitte Company to handle the sale of Republic of Texas public lands in 1841.

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