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Wade Ranch Records
Financial records, legal documents, personal correspondence, trade catalogs pertaining to the Wade family of Nueces County, Texas (now Lake Corpus Christi), are included in this collection. The Wade Ranch Papers were donated to the South Texas Archives by Thomas Priestly, grandson of Ezella Buchanan Priestly, who was the sister of LouElla Buchanan Wade, the wife of Wallis D. Wade. The papers were donated July 24, 1984.

Texas Tropical Trail Region Records
This collection is the Texas Historical Commission’s Project: Texas Heritage Trails Program Records dating from 2002 to 2013. The South Texas Region, Tropical Trail Region, covers 20 counties including the Gulf Coast from South Padre Island to Refugio to the Brush Country from George West to Cotulla and Brownsville, all-encompassing the Wild Horse Desert in the heart of the region which includes Hebbronville and Falfurrias. The records reflect the site visits to this region.

Dodson & McWhorter Families Papers
These papers tell the family histories of Edward Bradley’s daughter, Sarah Bradley who married Archelous B. Dodson. Sarah was known as Bessie Dodson who created the first flag of Texas in 1835. They had six children in Grimes County. One of their daughters, Harriet Houston Dodson, married Samuel S. McWhorter. To this union was born ten children. Samuel served in the Civil War and died young of tuberculosis. The family history is continued to 1967 in this small collection.