Carroll High School - Anchor Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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Our Place in History Timeline: The Beginnings B.C.: 50,000 Man reaches the New World. 20,000 Man comes to America. 6025 Man settles in Corpus Christi area. A.D.: 1492 Columbus discovers America. The Indian population is no more than one million. 1497 John Cabot, representing the English, sails along the coasts of present Canada and the United States. Spain is extracting S1 million in gold annually from Hispanola, the colony founded by Columbus in the West Indies. Ponce de Leon discovers Florida. Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda of Spain visits Corpus Christi Bay. Ferdinand Magellan's Victoria, with 18 survivors of the original crew of 237, sails successfully around the world. Esteban of Portugal surveys the Atlantic Coast. Cabeza de Vaca sights Corpus Christi Bay. 1534 Jacques Cartier explores the Gulf of St. Lawrence, giving the French an interest in the possibility of fur trading. Indians see horses for the first time. Fernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River. Spain establishes St. Augustine, Fla., the first European settlement in the U.S. North America has about 200 towns and cities with a total population of 160,000 or more. Sir Walter Raleigh attempts to establish a colony in Virginia, but it fails. British defeat of the Spanish Armada signals the decline of the power of Spain. King James I of England grants permission to establish Jamestown. The Sarah Constant, the Goodspeed and the Discovery carry 120 colonists to America. Jamestown, Va., founded as the first permanent English settlement in North America. The Separatists, to become the Pilgrims in American history, leave England for the Netherlands. 1512 1513 1519 1521 1524 1528 1540 1541 1565 1574 1584 1588 1606 1607 OP G

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1. The Cathedral of Mexico lies in the heart of Mexico City. 2. Tourists climb an Aztec pyramid located on the Mexico City outskirts. 3. Dancers in the Ballet Folklorico display their Hispanic heritage. 4. Chief Red Fox, the oldest resident of Corpus Christi at 105, tells a story to Mrs. Jerry Tippen's American Cultures class. 5. Tigerettes perform an umbrella routine during the halftime of the Gregory-Portland game. Their routines are set to music which reflects a variety of cultures, including that of Spain. 6. Two flowering century plants are set off by the purple sky of Mexico.

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1619 1620 1622 1630 1633 1636 1639 1640 Women, the Representative Assembly and Negro slavery introduced into Virginia. The Starving Time begins and settlers dwindle from 500 to 60. Pilgrims come from the Netherlands to establish Plymouth Colony in December under the Mayflower Compact. Indians massacre Jamestown settlers. Massachusetts Bay Colony begins in the Boston area, establishes a representative government like Jamestown and Plymouth. Puritanism spreads. Roger Williams founds Rhode Island in a quest for religious freedom. Harvard University founded in Boston. First printing press introduced, in Massachusetts. First book - the Bay Psalm Book - printed in the colonies. 1642-1647 1670- 1682 1683 1692 1699 1711 1718 1733 1747 4-Opening First system of public schools founded, in Massachusetts. 1676 Because Gov. Berkeley refuses to grant protection to the frontier, Nathaniel Bacon leads a group of frontiersmen in the first revolt against the power of the English, an unsuccessful one. Sieur de la Salle reaches the mouth of the Mississippi and claims Louisiana for Spain. Corpus Christi Bay visited by La Salle, who may have called the Nueces River the River of Gold. In the small town of Salem, Mass., a reign of fear comes to an end with the culmination of the Salem witchcraft trials. French establish a permanent settlement in Louisiana. Spanish colonies develop a culture blended of Spanish and Indian cultures, and the English transplant their culture to America. Heavy German immigration to the New World begins. Scotch-Irish immigration increases because of religious and economic discontent. A Virginia expedition kills Blackbeard the Pirate. Georgia, last of the 13 colonies, founded. Jose de Escandon attempts the first settlement of the N ueces River area. Joaquin Basterra finds Corpus Christi Bay and gives it its first recorded name, St. Michael the Archangel. Basterra's map of the South Texas coast disproves the theory that the Nueces River joins the Rio Grande. La Salle, representing the French, established a settlement near Matagorda. Fearing French invasion of the area, Spain sent Alonso de Leon in 1689 to find and take . the French settlement, but all De Leon found was a deserted fort. During his search, though, De Leon gave the Nueces fPecanl River its name because there were many , ' ' pecan trees. - ,......,.,..--- J? ,, . ici my 1Egf0f2:u X 2 .!W491?F7'il, f1 -'4 ' .1 7'3- .ds ,g ' ' 4'?f!??f??I.4fj2f ' C f' - is In-wx -:Alfa , l a? T Tm f Slifi1f1lly'2:i.5 ' 7 fl H I , ,, J ,, ,,,,,,. ,,.1,.,,l,,r ff 1 .9 .4 101 4 , - '24-L-:Q V 1'W ' I ,fp ff f N :wi 4' f fm' f . ', -'A 3190 -rf' 1, f M46 . 4 3 aim- ff. ff f Mi - f 'ff J if - ve if f V' I l - fl 4 ,. Vx, Z' I f ymc .-fy .. ,I 1 glgc fp' Q Z ! llfwwlfjjaxgvgvf ikf q X' 'N .za .u Vf fffiw ,g.,.-W i , ' 'lf' . 1 Mfg 7 f i, .,.,.f,Tf i -, - it ,V M7 ' ' ' , ' X x 14 ,fdZg'ft,,i9'V f I .- ' ' QVEQLQYIK V . ' 5. e 1 f f f ff. f in 45,1 5 , , . . I 5,351 ':,Q-1 A I' 1 rf f 1. Il' If ,ff , V , T 32. 4 l ' Spf? ,-- Originally, Nueces County extended from Corpus Christi to the Rio Grande. Later it was divided into 15 counties including the present ones of Webb, Zapata, Jim Hogg, Starr, Hidalgo, Cameron, Willacy, Kenedy, Brooks, Kleberg, Jim Wells, Duval, McMullen, Live Oak, and N ueces. At one time, the entire territory had been in San Patricio County, which was as big as Ireland. 1