April 22, 1938 The State of Texas gave up a fight to move Moses Austin from Potosi

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to a cemetery for state heroes. Texans had even hired an undertaker who cracked the tomb trying to break in. Austin established Potosi and Herculaneum as part of his lead mining empire. He planned a colony in Texas, then under Spanish rule. But he died while making preparations in 1821. His son Stephen brought 300 families from Missouri to Texas, where the capitol city is named Austin.