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Wake up with the sheriff knocking at the door. Court cases have played a part in popular movies. Listen to cspan radio at 90. 1 fm in the washington dc area. Online at cspan. Org. Download our cspan radio app. Herhe cspan cities to visits literary and Historic Sites across the nation every other weekend on cspan2s book tv and cspan3s American History tv. This month with congress on its summer resource summer recess, the city tour is on pan each day at 6 00 a. M. P. M. Eastern. Welcome to austin on American History tv. With help from our car mourner Time Warner Cable partners, we will explore the city of the capital of texas. Austin is referred to as the live music capital of the world because of the venues in the city. It has a population just under one million. Ofe a behind the scenes tour the president ial suite at the Lyndon Johnson president ial library and museum. Didsuite looks just as it with the former president roamed its halls. The space is really a living, breathing artifact
Grounds. It has this beautiful renaissance revival style with this massive sunset red granite. Its easy to see from any Vantage Point within downtown austin. We do have a round dome, not unlike the nations capitol. We are topped by the goddess of liberty, the beautiful statue that graces our tip top of the capitol dome. Texans are proud of the fact its taller than the national capitol. When the first capitol on Capitol Square was completed in 1853, it was small and it wasnt too popular. Officials started to make plans for a grander, more fitting State Capitol for texas. They quickly realized they couldnt afford the kind of massive structure they had in mind. So they were able to set aside over 3 million acres of land. They were able to trade that. The Texas Capitol is a great opportunity to impart the story of texas, the story of the land that it took to build the capitol. Also about the history of the state of texas, not only as a state but then, of course, that before it was a republ
We have been exercising the rights and responsibilities of Self Government in virginia for nearly 400 years and thats something worth watching. Well the capitol certainly has a commanding presence here in austin. It is at the top of the hill. Capitol square, it is over 22 acres of park light grounds. It has this beautiful renaissance revival style with a massive red granite. It is very easy to see it from any advantage point within downtown austin. We do have a round dome. Not unlike the nations capitol and we are topped by the god he is of liberty, the beautiful statue that graces our tip top of the capitol dome. Texans are very proud of the fact that the Texas Capitol is taller than the national capitol. When the first capitol on capitol was complete in 1863 it wasnt very tall and not popular and they made plans for a grander capitol for texas and with the plans they quickly realized they couldnt afford the kind of massive structure they had in mind. So they were able to set aside ov
We have been exercising the rights and responsibilities of Self Government in virginia for nearly 400 years and thats something worth watching. Well the capitol certainly has a commanding presence here in austin. It is at the top of the hill. Capitol square, it is over 22 acres of park light grounds. It has this beautiful renaissance revival style with a massive red granite. It is very easy to see it from any advantage point within downtown austin. We do have a round dome. Not unlike the nations capitol and we are topped by the god he is of liberty, the beautiful statue that graces our tip top of the capitol dome. Texans are very proud of the fact that the Texas Capitol is taller than the national capitol. When the first capitol on capitol was complete in 1863 it wasnt very tall and not popular and they made plans for a grander capitol for texas and with the plans they quickly realized they couldnt afford the kind of massive structure they had in mind. So they were able to set aside ov