CLYDE, TX. CLYDE, TEXAS. Clyde is an incorporated community on Interstate Highway 20 and Farm Road 604, five miles west of Baird and eight miles east of Abilene in northwestern Callahan County. The site is on the Callahan Divide between the Brazos and Colorado rivers; its elevation is 1,980 feet above sea level.
Statement of Purpose. Tulane was founded in 1834 by seven brave physicians who sought to form a medical school in New Orleans that would teach others how to care for patients in the midst of an epidemic of cholera and yellow fever.
The Brazilian people first coined the expression in the early 16th century. The Spanish adopted the word Creole to denote their own, who were born in the New World and the French, later copied this word form the Spanish. From this successive use of the word it somehow came to denote Creole people from Louisiana.