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Jeffersonâs prosperity didnât last, though. Steamboating nationwide eventually began to give way to the rise of railroads, and in 1873, the government blasted holes in the Great Raft. Upstream, water levels on the Big Cypress dropped, making navigation to Jefferson difficult. That same year, another blow came when the Texas and Pacific Railway, which went from Texarkana to Marshall, bypassed Jefferson. By 1885, more than half of the townâs population had moved away.
In December 1835, during Texasâ war for independence from Mexico, a group of Texan volunteer soldiers occupied the Alamo, a former Franciscan mission located near the present-day city of San Antonio.en years after Texas won its independence and shortly after it was annexed by the United States, U.S. soldiers revived the Remember the Alamo! battle cry while fighting against Mexican forces in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848.