A Texas Agency is Defending the Confederacy
As cities and counties across the state try to take down their Confederate memorials, the Texas Historical Commission keeps making their job harder.
In June 2020, AGE of Central Texas covered the historical marker outside the Confederate Woman’s Home in Austin. Tristan Ahtone
As cities and counties across the state try to take down their Confederate memorials, the Texas Historical Commission keeps making their job harder.
In June 2020, AGE of Central Texas covered the historical marker outside the Confederate Woman’s Home in Austin. Tristan Ahtone
Michael Hardy
Mar 10, 2021, 8:00 am CST
In 1908, the Texas chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy built a 15-bedroom mansion in Austin’s leafy Hyde Park neighborhood, a mile north of the University of Texas. Intended to house elderly wives and widows of Confederate veterans, the Confederate Woman’s Home, like similar facilities in other southern states, was part of the Daughters’ mission to create “living monuments” to the Confederacy, an effort that also involved erecting hundreds of Confederate memorials across the South in the early decades of the 20th century.