DRT Accomplishments Include:

Encourage Texas Legislature to purchase the land of the Battle of San Jacinto

One on the earliest projects was to persuade the state to buy the land on which the battle was fought. DRT then placed historical markers on important site with the assistance of the Verterans’ Association

1929 – Children of the Republic of Texas association organized

This junior organization is sponsored by local chapters and allows any child under the age of 21 to join if they can trace their linage back to before the Texas Revolution

Elisabeth Ney Texas period states to Texas Capitol

The Daughters were monumental in buying the life-size statues of Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston and placing them in the rotunda of the Texas Capitol, where they remain to this day

Washington-on-the-Brazos monument placement

DRT used its influence to get a monument placed on the location of the signing of the Declaration of Texas Independence

1961 – Adoption of artwork for the reverse side of the Texas Seal

On August 11^th, Texas legislature chose the design of DRT member, Sarah Roach Farnsworth, of the San Antonio chapter, for the reverse side of the Great Seal of Texas. It featured the

Place bronze medallions of graves of citizens of the Republic of Texas

A recent and ongoing project is to commemorate the lives of citizens form the republic who are buried around the state

Published volumes of Texas history

DRT sponsored the publication of many volumes of history, biographies, and lineages of its members in Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas


Source: The Handbook of Texas Online
Texas Sate Historical Commission
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/vnd03