Gown on the Border
This story is from Texas Monthly's archives. We have left it as it was originally published, without updating, to maintain a clear historical recor...
This story is from Texas Monthly's archives. We have left it as it was originally published, without updating, to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. More than half a century ago in Laredo, 1,500 miles as the crow rarely flies from the Virginia home of our first first lady, the women of Webb County founded the Society of Martha Washington on the Texas-Mexico border. The society continues to adhere to its original purpose of asserting its Americanism with a lavish celebration of George Washington's birthday in a land that still seems to belong to Mexico.