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AGENDA
April 3, 2009
City of College Station Conference Center, Room #103
1300 George Bush Drive
1:30 p.m.
1. Welcome — Anne Boykin, Heritage Programs Coordinator, City of CS Parks and
Recreation Department
2. Brief report on El Camino Real Workshop at Stephen F. Austin University — Barbara
Althaus, Brazos County Historical Commission
3. Brief report on El Camino Real presentation in Caldwell by A. Joachim McGraw, author
of "A Texas Legacy, The Old San Antonio Road and The Caminos Reales, A Tricentennial
History, 1691 — 1991"
4. Challenge Cost Share Grant — David Gerling, Special Facilities Superintendent, City of CS
Parks and Recreation Department
5. "The Brazos County Swales" —Jeff Williams, GIS Systems Administrator, College of
Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University
6. Scheduling of next meeting — Anne Boykin
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Jeff Williams discusses the El Camino Real
Swales with a SFASU Worshop member.
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OSR Report on ECR Workshop March 2009
Nacogdoches, Texas
The two -day workshop, which centered around El Camino Real, held us spell -bound
while experienced speakers talked on a range of topics from GIS research methods and wildlife
along ECR, to identifying needs and marketing materials.
We also heard Susan Boyle, of the National Park Service, talk about developing the
overall Comprehensive Management Plan which NPS will use in Texas. On our local level, we
appreciated learning how to make an Interpretive Plan and put it to work while partnering with
surrounding counties.
An example would be for Brazos County, as the center of OSR, to provide an exhibit of
the prairies that settlers to Texas viewed upon their arrival here in the early 1800s. Burleson
County holds the earliest settlement by being home to Fort Tenoxtitlian in 1820. Robertson
County would tell tales of later Indian Deprivations in the area.
All this information about how to develop a site in Brazos County made the trip well
worthwhile. But all that paled by comparison to the field trips we made. We travelled to San
Augustine, Texas to view the Mission Dolores Site and walk down a well- manicured, mowed,
wide -open swale. Its director gave another informative talk on how archaeologists are
investigating their site, and costs involved.
But the next turned out to be the highlight of the trip for me, and an incredible
experience. That is, walking or rather fighting my way through the underbrush to walk along
Lobanilla Cuts. I will never forget that. Lobanilla Cuts is an amazing collection of seven large
swales, side -by -side, in varying degrees of depth and width. The Cut I chose to battle my way
through was about 10 feet deep and little more than arm's width wide. It made me think of
how dangerous travelers had it because they could not see out or spot robbers waiting to
waylay them.
In summary, the Workshop helped us to visually see what we could develop in Brazos
County and gave us the tools to start the planning process to share our site with others. It
instilled in me the enormity of the settlement of Texas and what people went through to get
here. Not only that but of how many feet did it take, and how many years did it take, to wear
down a ditch 10 feet deep? On top of that, how could those huge cuts have been preserved for
all these years?
Barbara Donalson Althaus
Brazos County Historical Commission
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