Gonzales Park in the Spanish Cross Traditional Geocache
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Gonzales Park in the Spanish Cross
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A number of towns in Texas were organized in this traditional fashion of the Spanish Cross; but, Gonzales is
the only town that still has all of the original squares from the Spanish land grant intact and still in use as public land.
This cache is located in one of the parks dedicated for public use by the original Spanish Land Grant.
The cache contains a travel bug named Gulliver's Travels. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Byrd Lockhart surveyed the town of Gonzales about a mile west of its original site. He
placed seven public squares in the shape of a Spanish cross at the center of
town and named all of the streets in the original town site after Catholic
Saints (in alphabetical order, no less!). Two additional strips of land, each
one-block wide, were set aside for public use only. One extended 5 miles
north and the other extended 3 miles east of the courthouse.
Gonzales was established to be the capital of a new colony of 400 families
granted by the Mexican government to Empresario Green DeWitt. Most of
the settlers that joined his colony were German, Polish, & Czech immigrants
who entered through the Gulf of Mexico port settlement of Indianola.
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