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Officers (Photo by Mary Hardy)

Chair, Mary Torres
    Harlingen (345-4756)
torresmaro@att.net
 
Vice-Chair, Larry Lof
    Brownsville (561-3671)    lawrencelof@utb.edu

Secretary, Norman Rozeff,
    Harlingen (425-2932)
    nrozeff@sbcglobal.com

Treasurer, Jose A. Gavito, Jr. 
    Brownsville, (545-3539)
    joseg@cob.us

 


Contact via e-mail: 
    Chairman
    Web Master

    Click to view CCHC By-Laws
    Click to see a list of CCHC Members
    Click to open the Treasurer's Reimbursement Form which can be printed.
 


 The February meeting is to be held in La Feria, February 21, 2010.  Click for the minutes of the December meeting.

 

 
A new page, "Influential People" (of Brownsville) can be opened from the UTB Brownsville and Matamoras History web page which in turn can be opened by clicking its listing in the Links Frame at left.
 

 

Wanted: a Spanish-English translator to volunteer to translate a fictionalized, medium-length history book dealing with the Forto family of Brownsville. Required would be a good vocabulary in both Spanish and English and the ability to edit breathless Spanish into readable English. Please contact Norman Rozeff for information. 

 


Click to go to a:

    World War II Military-related Item Inventory of Cameron County, Texas

As of July 2008 and compiled by Norman Rozeff, Secretary, Cameron County Historical Commission
Items are Listed by city or town
Readers are invited to furnish Norman Rozeff any WWII Cameron County items that may have been overlooked

Javier Garcia has shared with CCHC a summary of some history research entitled "History of the 'Negro Bridge' North of Brownsville." Click to view.

Recent Additions to the Rozeff History Pages
(Click on a title to jump directly to that article)
(Photo of Norman Rozeff, Lower Rio Grand Valley Historian is at left)


 The Story of Union Forces in South Texas During the Civil War (Revisions posted 20 June and 7 July, 2009)
Arroyo Colorado History (Posted 22 June, 2009)
Bowling in Harlingen  (Posted 26 June, 2009 and expanded on 13 July)
Ship and Drill Rig Building at Port Brownsville, Texas  (Posted 10 July, 2009)
Two Famous Architects of Harlingen    (Addition posted 18 July, 2009)
A Link to the Past—Historian Harbert Davenport  (Posted 15 Aug., 2009)
A Zoo Farce in Two Acts  (Posted 15 Aug., 2009)
Professional Baseball in Harlingen  (Posted 15 Aug., 2009)
Américo Paredes, The Valley's Renaissance Man (Revised and retitled 26 Oct., 2009)
When the Union Helped Mexico Independence (Posted 31 Oct., 2009)
The Canals of Harlingen  (Posted 10 Nov., 2009)
Citrus History Excerpts  (Reviised 8 Dec., 2009)
Cotton History Highlights  (Revised 8 Dec., 2009)
Santa Rosa Celebrates 80 Years as a Town and City (Posted 1 Jan., 2010)
Valley Bragging Rights for Record Texas Trees  (Posted 4 Jan., 2010)
Rio Hondo and Its Once Wild Side (Posted 6 Jan., 2010)
 City Parks of Harlingen, Texas  (Udated  11 Jan., 2010)
 The Story of Union Forces in South Texas During the Civil War (Revisions posted 20 June, 7 July, 2009 and 11 Jan., 2010)
 

    An essay by Norman Rozeff starts:

"While vacationing in our Northwest, I realized that the designations of the landmarks and natural features that I was encountering were a far cry from what I was used to in deep South Texas. Here were no arroyos, resacas, lomas, chaparral, tules, rios, lagunas, tanks, playas, and colonias. No, after traversing the Great Plains the physical landscape had a totally different nomenclature. I was encountering buttes, bluffs, sierras, and terrain sculpted by glaciers.

"What became apparent was that the English language was again exhibiting its healthy appetite to accommodate and digest whatever words struck the fancy of its American users. The nuances of the language in dealing with topographical descriptions and the like are considerable."

Click for the whole essay.

 


Not on this web but Click for a treatise on the Padre Island National Seashore that Norman found
 

A link to a historical site maintained by the University of Texas Brownsville/Texas Southernmost College has been added in the links frame at left. It has great photographs and useful links. Or, just click here.

The Texas Historical Commission's Texas Heritage Trails Program has established a web site for each of its ten regions. The site for Texas Tropical Trail, which threads through Cameron County, is:
   http://www.texastropicaltrail.com/home/index.asp .
 The site contains a wealth of links, many dealing with entities in Cameron County. It's worth some surfing time.

For some time now, Norman Rozeff, of the Harlingen Historical Preservation Board, has been creating essays on the History of Harlingen and the Valley. Norman has generously made them available to the Cameron County Historical Commission. There are three pages listing titles of Rozeff articles which can be opened by clicking on their titles:
       Harlingen History        Valley History        Chronological History of Harlingen.

And, Norman points out a relatively new facility of the Texas Historical Commission--The Texas Historical Sites Atlas. It's available at http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/     There you can do such things as read the text on THC's thousands of historical markers or display interactive maps of historical sites, organized by county.

Click to view Minutes of past meetings
    February, 2007  April, 2007   June, 2007  August, 2007    October, 2007    December, 2007    February, 2008  April, 2008   June, 2008    August, 2008     October, 2008    December, 2008     July, 2009    August, 2009      October, 2009    December, 2009

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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