Forums

AtomicBono

The friendliest place on the web for anyone that follows U2.
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.

See posts with no answers

Stephen F. Austin was born in the mining regions of southwestern Virginia (Wythe County), in what is now known as Austinville, some 250 miles (400 km) southwest of Richmond, Virginia.[1] He was the second child of Moses Austin and Mary Brown, the first, Eliza Austin, having lived only one month. On June 8, 1798, when he was four years old, his family moved forty miles west of the Mississippi River to the lead mining region in present-day Missouri. His father Moses Austin received a Sitio[2] from the Spanish government for the mining site of Mine á Breton. In 1813, a decade after the Louisiana Purchase transferred sovereignty of the area to American hands; his father lobbied the territorial legislature to create the county of Washington and to locate the new county seat at the town he created, called Potosi in present-day Washington County, Missouri.[citation needed].

energy drinks, guitaring