Category: Texas
The Biggest Grave Marker of Any Rancher
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/09/2026-0924-Bay-City-Texas-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He owned one of the largest ranches in Texas in the late 1800s and he might just have the biggest…
Artifacts From a Doomed Expedition
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/09/2026-0923-Bay-City-Texas-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In Bay City, Texas you’ll find a place that displays artifacts from a doomed expedition that arrived here over three…
Missing the Mark By a Few Hundred Miles
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/09/2026-0922-Bay-City-Texas-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The explorer LaSalle was determined to sail to North America and find the mouth of the Mississippi River. He missed…
The Cemetery That Drew a Crowd
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/08/2026-0825-Del-Rio-Cemetery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most cemeteries are peaceful memorials to those who have passed. That was the case here, until one of the newly…
The Waters
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/08/2026-0824-Del-Rio-The-Waters.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the first pioneers set about buildings homes and towns they often looked for a good water source to sustain…
The Unusual Goat Gland Doctor
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/08/2026-0821-Del-Rio-Dr-Brinkley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can still find the mansion and the hotel here in Del Rio, Texas of a once prominent and controversial…
A Million Watt Radio Station
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/08/2026-0820-Del-Rio-Dr-Brinkley-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We are thankful for the many stations that air our broadcasts every day, but nothing could match the power of…
Farmer’s Branch, Texas
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/04/2026-0513-Farmers-Branch-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The name Farmers Branch sums up the beginning of this place. A rich ag community along a north Texas stream. …
Fossati’s Deli
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0331-Fossatis-Deli-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This business is about a century and a half old and has been housed in the same building since before…
Founding the Oldest of This Business in Texas
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/03/2026-0330-Fossatis-Deli-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this immigrant came to America he was looking for a job as a stone mason. He ended up founding…
Rosenwald Schools
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0225-West-Columbia-Texas-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are called Rosenwald Schools. They were in part founded by a man who gave the equivalent of a billion…
A Capital You May Have Never Heard Of
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0224-West-Columbia-Texas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Texas became an independent nation from Mexico in 1836, it needed a location for a capital. That first spot…
A Prime Spot to Settle
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/02/2026-0223-West-Columbia-Texas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Mexico gained independence from Spain, today’s state of Texas was a prime spot for some American citizens to settle. …
The Ezekiel Airship
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0130-Ezekiel-Airship.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did a man in Texas build an aircraft that flew a full year before the Wright Brothers plane? There are…
The Ace of Clubs House
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/05Dec25-Ace-of-Clubs-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a home with gigantic ceilings and a resident who had over 500 pairs of shoes, not to mention it…
Building a House from a Gambling Fortune
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/04Dec25-Ace-of-Clubs-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this man won a card game that gained him a small fortune, he decided to build his family a…
A City on the State Line
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/03Dec25-Texarkana.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This city was established on a state line and one of its most important buildings is literally on top of…
Banding Together for a Purpose
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/22Sep25-Hemphill-Texas-NASA-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It some of the most difficult times, people often forget what separates them and band together to help those in…
The Event that Changed Hemphill, Texas Forever
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/09/19Sep25-Hemphill-Texas-NASA-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was February 1st, 2003. Residents of Hemphill, Texas heard what sounded like a giant explosion on an otherwise peaceful…
The Old Stone Fort
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/05/06Jun25-Old-Stone-Fort.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s known as the Old Stone Fort, but using the tern “fort” is perhaps a bit liberal. While the structure…
