Fourteen cannons from Castillo de San Marcos National Monument in Florida arriving at the Conservation Research Lab at Texas A&M University. (Texas A&M Marketing and Communications photo/Mark Guerrero) By Heather Rodriguez, Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts The Conservation Research Laboratory (CRL) at Texas A&M University is restoring…
By Elena Watts, Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications The latest two of nine Alamo cannons being conserved by the Conservation Research Laboratory (CRL) on the RELLIS Education and Research Campus at Texas A&M University in Bryan returned to San Antonio Tuesday as two more, a 4-pound Spanish…
By Elena Watts, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications Texas A&M conservators have revealed new details about two cannons used during the Texas Revolution’s 1836 Battle of the Alamo. The Rio Grande Cannon and Spanish Cannon returned home to the Alamo in San Antonio on Monday after almost four…
Texas General Land Office Commissioner George P. Bush addresses the crowd at the Alamo in San Antonio during Cannon Fest, where the announcement was made that the cannons were being conserved by the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University. By Elena Watts, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications The…