Castro’s Colony, Texas. Manuscript map with field notes. Prepared by F.K. Toschinsky, Deputy Surveyor, Bexar County, Texas.

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(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).

Castro’s Colony, Texas. Manuscript map with field notes. Prepared by F.K. Toschinsky, Deputy Surveyor, Bexar County, Texas.

Field notes of a survey of 640 acres of land designated for part of Castro’s Colony; notes the redesignation of “Castro Colony” to “Castroville.” Two pages. 4to.

(Bexar County, Texas): 15th August 1855

Est: $700 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

Born in Bayonne, France, and of Portuguese-Jewish descent, Henri Castro (1786-1865) was a Jewish empresario of the Republic of Texas. The recipient of two land grants in 1842, Castro had planned to create a settlement of 600 families. The project, which was renamed Castroville in this document, did not fully come to fruition, but it was established and is still known for its Alsatian-Texan architecture. See B.D. Weaver, Castro's Colony: Empresario Development in Texas, 1842-1865. (2006).