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Santiago Del Valle
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'''Santiago Del Valle''' was a Mexican [[hacendado]] and government official for [[Coahuila y Tejas]] (Coahuila and Texas) during the [[Texas Revolution]]. Del Valle obtained a [[land grant]] from the Mexican government, which led to the founding of [[Galveston, Texas]] and several towns in [[Travis County, Texas|Travis County]], including [[Del Valle, Texas|Del Valle]], which is named in his honor. In 1825, he served as president of the Congreso Constituyente of the state of Coahuila y Tejas, counselor to governor [[Victor Blanco (Governor)|Victor Blanco]]<ref></ref>, and as the arbitrator in a feud between the [[Sánchez Navarro latifundio|Sánchez Navarro]] and Elizondo families.<ref name="Clark"></ref>
==Land grant==
The Del Valle land grant was originally an ''[[empresario]]'' grant purchased by [[Benjamin Milam]] in 1825, in hopes of establishing a mining colony.<ref name="Milam"></ref> In 1832, the Mexican government canceled Milam's grant due to an insufficient supply of new citizens for their colony in Texas, following a [[Law of April 6, 1830|a new law]] passed in 1830.<ref name="Milam"/> In 1832, the 10 [[league (unit)|league]] grant was transferred to Del Valle, who lived and worked in [[Monclova]] at the time.<ref name="Clark"/> In 1835, [[Samuel May Williams]] acquired ten leagues (about ) of the grant from Del Valle and sold the land to [[Michel Branamour Menard]], who established the town that would become the present-day [[Galveston, Texas]].<ref></ref><ref></ref> Menard, in turn, sold nine leagues (about ) of land in [[Travis County, Texas]] to [[Thomas F. McKinney]] in 1839.<ref name="Henson">Henson, Margaret Swett. ''McKinney Falls''. The Texas State Historical Association, 1999.</ref> Del Valle sold the remaining league of the grant, a swath of land south of [[Bastrop, Texas]], to Bartlett Sims.<ref name="Clark"/>
In the 1850s, McKinney settled the land and built a [[limestone]] homestead and [[grist mill]] along [[Onion Creek (Texas)|Onion Creek]]. McKinney sold all but approximately 2,800 acres of the land prior to his death; many of McKinney's land sales led to the present-day [[Pilot Knob (Austin, Texas)|Pilot Knob]], [[Creedmoor, Texas|Creedmoor]], [[Bluff Springs, Texas|Bluff Springs]], and [[Del Valle, Texas|Del Valle]].<ref></ref> Following McKinney's death in 1873, his widow, Anna, sold the remaining land to James Woods Smith, whose family owned a farm on the land until 1973, when they donated it to the State of Texas in 1973 to create [[McKinney Falls State Park]].<ref></ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Mexican civil servants]]
[[Category:People of Mexican Texas]]
[[Category:Texas pioneers]]
[[Category:People of the Texas Revolution]]
[[Category:Politicians from Monclova]]
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