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(Pictures are thumbnails, Click on them to enlarge)
Officers
(Photo by Mary Hardy)
Chair, Mary Torres
Harlingen (345-4756)
torresmary@aol.com
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
IContact 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.
2:00 p.m., Sunday, 5 July, 2009.
Venue: Second floor of the Rio Hondo City Hall, 121 N. Arroyo Blvd., next to the arroyo.
Click to see the December meeting minutes
Click for a copy of the agenda
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.
At the October CCHC meeting Cemeteries Chairman P. G. Cavazos reported on the
ceremony dedicating the THC marker at the El Carmen Cemetery in Losoya off HWY
281 near San Pedro. Some 50 attended the
dedication including CCHC members Mary
Torres, Larry Lof, P.G. Cavazos and Norman Rozeff. An internet site detailing
the history of the cemetery and of the community can be opened by
clicking. (Pictures are thumbnails, click on them to enlarge.)
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
 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)
Stuart
Place History A fascinating piece of information has been added. (12
January, 2009)
Last Piece of
Railroad Puzzle Falls into Place (Posted 19 Jan., 2009)
Sun Valley Shopping Center History
(Posted 22 January, 2009)
World War II Heroes from the Harlingen Area
(Posted 18 March, 2009)
Getsemani
Presbyterian Church of San Benito, (Posted 29 March, 2009)
First Methodist Church of
San Benito History (Posted 29 March, 2009)
Our
Language Embraces the Southwest
(Revised 10 April, 2009)
A Chronological History of Education in Harlingen
(Revised 10 April, 2009(
The Story of Union Forces in South Texas During the Civil War
(Revision posted 12 April., 2009)
Major Facelift Creates a Beauty
(Posted 27 April, 2009)
A Jewish Immigrant and Spanish
Proverbs of South Texas (Posted 27 April, 2009)
Adams Gardens
Connections – Ballí to Berly (Updated April
2009)
The Stage Line and the Paso Real
(Updated 1 May, 2009)
The Armendaiz Ranch of Willacy and
Cameron Counties (Updated 1 May, 2009)
Citrus History Excerpts
(Updated 1 May, 2009)
Historic River Flooding in
the Valley (Posted 22 May, 2009)
Flooding in Harlingen (Posted 25
May, 2009)
History of Lights of the Valley, as
published by the U.S. Coast Guard (Posted 8 June, 2009)
Airports, Airlines, and Airplanes in
Harlingen—A Brief Survey (Posted 12 June, 2009)
Selected Lower Rio Grande Valley ( Primarily the Harlingen
Area)
Cotton History Highlights (Revised, 14 June, 2009)
The Story of Union Forces in South Texas During the Civil War
(Latest revision posted 20 June, 2009)
Arroyo Colorado History (Posted
22 June, 2009)
Bowling in Harlingen (Posted 26 June,
2009)
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
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