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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.net

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

Contact via e-mail:
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    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 next CCHC meeting is to be held in Rio Hondo
Click to see the minutes of the July 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)

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, 11 Jan., 2010 and 21 May, 2010)
Osco Morris, Early Harlingen Pioneer and Character (Posted 11 Feb., 2010)
Dr. Paul Maxwell and a Military Client (Posted 11 Feb., 2010)
Lipan Apache and Chief Flacco, The Younger (Posted 20 Feb., 2010)
James Henry Dishman and His Mother, Georgiana Berryman Dishman (Posted 26 Feb., 2010, Revised 3 Mar., 2010)
Lt. Walter H. Chatfield, An Unsung Cog in Valley Development (Posted 3 Mar., 2010)
Sugarcane and the Valley (Posted on 8 March)
Bagdad, Tamaulipais History, an unedited Wikipedia version by History Lady (Posted 27 March, 2010)
Early Wildlife and Vegetation in South Texas (Posted 27 March, 2010)
20th Century Brought Renewed Life to the Old Miller Hotel (Revised Feb., 2010)
The New York Store and the Diana Shop (Material added April, 2010)
Commercial Ports of the LRG Valley (Posted 3 May, 2010.)
Betty Murray, a Generous and Gracious Lady of the Old School (Posted 26 May, 2010.)
Japanese Texans of the Valley (Posted 1 June, 2010)
Brownsville Rainfall Statistics (Updated, 5 July, 2010)
Monthly Rainfall Data for Harlingen, 1911-2010, (Posted 5 July, 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 February 2010 April 2010 July 2010

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