Incognitim on Nostr: Shelby Park was named after Gen. Joseph Orville Shelby, known as the undefeated ...
Shelby Park was named after Gen. Joseph Orville Shelby, known as the undefeated rebel, who buried the last confederate flag in the nation in the Rio Grande River at Eagle Pass in 1865, before fleeing to Mexico rather than surrendering.
The #Texas park was built in the late 1990s as part of a FEMA flooding mitigation plan. If that’s when it was named, the timing would dovetail with a revival of neo-Confederate groups in the US..but it’s unclear if there was a connection.🤔
https://www.fema.gov/case-study/acquisition-makes-way-new-community-park
The #Texas park was built in the late 1990s as part of a FEMA flooding mitigation plan. If that’s when it was named, the timing would dovetail with a revival of neo-Confederate groups in the US..but it’s unclear if there was a connection.🤔
https://www.fema.gov/case-study/acquisition-makes-way-new-community-park