You'll Find The Remains Of A Former Texas Capital In Louisiana

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Just off of Louisiana’s Highway 6, about 30 miles east of the Sabine River that separates the state from modern day Texas, you’ll find the remains of the long-lost first Spanish capital of Tejas – one you’ve probably never heard about. It was buried for hundreds of years, until one archeology student decided to dig it up.

When Pete Gregory first visited this site in the ‘60s, there wasn’t much to see besides grass and pines. And a sign.

“Well I’m an archaeologist and if someone puts up a sign on the side of the road and says this is a a fort, I thought well, Maybe so,” Gregory says.

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Starting in 1966, Gregory helmed a series of archaeological investigations that proved the site was Los Adaes, the little-known capital of Spanish provincial Texas.

Read more: http://www.texasstandard.org/stories/youll-find-the-remains-of-a-former-texas-capital-in-louisiana/