点评:Stephen Austin is known as the father of Texas. His father Moses Austin secured permission from the Spanish Government to form an Anglo colony in Spanish Texas. But Moses contracted pneumonia and died. Stephen took up his father's dream but then Mexico gained it's independence from Spain. Stephan Austin went to Mexico City and after a year of wrangling with the Mexican government he finally got permission to keep the land grant and start the colony. He arrived in Texas with 300 families who settled along the Brazos, San Bernard and Colorado Rivers. He was operating under the watchful eye of Felipe Neri the Baron de Bastrop who helped him pick a suitable site on the Brazos for the colony's first town San Felipe de Austin. This became the colonial capital. Reaching about 600 in population by 1835 it was the site of the Consultation of 1835 in which Texas decided that they would operate under the Mexican constitution of 1824 which Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana had suspended or they were going their own way. There is here today only a reconstructed town as the original San Felipe de Austin was burnt to the ground during the revolution by the Texans to keep it out of Mexican hands. But there were live impersonators all with stories to tell and buildings reconstructed using the methods of the times. A great trip if you want to understand Texas history
翻译:斯蒂芬·奥斯汀被誉为德克萨斯之父。他的父亲摩西·奥斯汀曾获得西班牙政府的许可,在西班牙属地德克萨斯建立盎格鲁殖民地。但摩西感染肺炎去世。斯蒂芬继承了父亲的梦想,但墨西哥随后脱离西班牙获得独立。斯蒂芬·奥斯汀来到墨西哥城,经过一年与墨西哥政府的角力,最终获得许可保留土地并建立殖民地。他带着300个家庭抵达德克萨斯,定居在布拉索斯河、圣伯纳德河和科罗拉多河沿岸。他在巴斯特罗普男爵费利佩·内里的监督下开展工作,费利佩·内里帮助他在布拉索斯河上为殖民地的第一个城镇圣费利佩·德·奥斯汀选址。这里后来成为殖民地的首府。到1835年,人口达到约600人,德克萨斯在此举行了1835年磋商,决定要么按照安东尼奥·洛佩斯·德·圣安娜暂停的1824年墨西哥宪法行事,要么走自己的路。如今,这里只剩下一座重建的城镇,因为原来的圣费利佩·德·奥斯汀在独立战争期间被德克萨斯人烧毁,以免落入墨西哥人之手。不过,这里曾有现场模仿者,他们个个都有故事可讲,建筑也用当时的方法重建。如果你想了解德克萨斯的历史,这是一次很棒的旅行。