Wanderer's Retreat

ID: 2308 ~ Source: "Wanderer's Retreat," Residence of Mr. J. De Cordova, Five Miles from Seguin, Texas , 1852, Amon Carter Museum, http://www.cartermuseum.org/books/encountering/art/sh1.htm.
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Wanderer's Retreat

De Cordova proposed a canal on the Brazos River right by his estate. The river at Kimball’s Bend folds back upon itself, and de Cordova wanted to build a canal across the mouth of the bend as part of his water power plans.

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By Anabel Burke
Settlers of the Texas Frontier were undeniably an eclectic bunch, and the founders of Waco were no exception. One of the main organizers of the new city was a Jewish, Jamaican-born Spaniard named Jacob de Cordova. De Cordova was not only…