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The historical information in these Facts & Artifacts newsletters are 
due to the years of devoted research efforts of Herbert L. Diers.  
Vol. 1 No. 1 Spring 1994 " The Capture Of Santa Anna"
Vol. 1 No. 1 Summer 1994 "Let's Call It Round Top"
Vol. 1 No. 3 Fall 1994 "Round Top's First Twenty Years" From the 1830s to 1850s
Vol. 2 No. 2 Summer 1995 "Round Top's Fourth of July"
Vol. 3 No. 4 Winter 1996 John "Juan C. C. Hill" Adopted by Santa Anna
Vol. 4 No. 1 Spr/Sum 1997 Monument Hill State Park Mexican Invasion of 1842
Vol. 4 No. 2 Fall/Win 1997 "What is know about Myers Fisher Jones?"
Vol 5 No 1 Spr/Sum 1998 "How Round Top Began"
Vol 5 No 2 Fall/Win 1998 "The Post Offices of Round Top and the Post Masters"
Vol 6 No 1 Spr/Sum 1999 "First Plan of Round Top" "Round Top's General Store"
Vol 6 No 2 Fall/Win 1999 "James Winn League Map" "An Early History of Round Top, Fayette County, Texas"
Vol 7 / For the year of 2000 "Who Was Harvey Alexander Adams"
Vol 10 / For the year of 2003 "Join A Historical Society"
Vol 11 No 1 / For year 2004 "The Connersville Primitive Baptist Church African American Museum"
Vol 12 No 1 / For year 2005 "The 11th Annual Community Garage Sale"
Vol 13 No 1 / For year 2006 "Noak Home Donation" "Pavilion News"
Vol 14 No 1 / For year 2007 "The Wood Annex"
Vol 15 No 1 / For year 2008 "Work on the Wood Annex"
Vol 16 No 1 / For year 2009 "Moving Day From Old Museum to Wood Campus Museum"
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>>>  Did You Know   <<<

How Round Top got its name

A stagecoach station at Rocky Creek became known as Round Top Place because the top of a building had an octagonal shape cupola.  The stage drivers would yell out upon their approach . . . "Round Top" . . . thus in 1851 giving birth to the name of the town, Round Top.

Facts and Artifacts Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 2
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