The Farmers Improvement College near Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas was designed for agricultural and domestic training.

A sketch of a map drawn for a textbook yields some interesting information. Here’s a mid-19th century, hand-drawn map of the Indian...

Nicholas King’s map of the Freeman-Custis expedition of 1806, with the 1976 overlay by E.M. Parker. (LSU) In 1806, President Thomas...