GeoByte1:In 1821 Texas was part of Mexico. That year Stephen Austin, for whom the city of Austin is named, brought the first of many colonists from the United States to settle in Texas.
GeoByte2:The main campus of the University of Texas is in Austin.
GeoByte3:Austin was the capital of the independent Republic of Texas before Texas joined the Union in 1845.
GeoByte4:Austin's pink granite capitol building is modeled after the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
GeoByte5:The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library is on the University of Texas campus at Austin.
GeoByte6:Austin was named in honor of Stephen F. Austin, the "father" of the Republic of Texas.
