John Sorsby - Texas History & Outdoors

John Sorsby - Texas History & Outdoors I create Texas travel videos telling the stories of towns, parks, historic sites and other unique spots across the state.
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Recently finished visiting every Texas State Park in one year: 88/88

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10/06/2026

Old Stagecoach Road near Marshall in East Texas goes back to the pre-Civil War days. The woods around it were once a hideout for robbers that would target the stagecoaches driving to and from Shreveport, Louisiana.

There’s many a ghost story connected to Old Stagecoach Road…possibly the most haunted road in Texas?

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10/05/2026

The 12.4 mile loop hike through the Del Norte unit of Devils River State Natural Area takes you along the old ranch roads through the canyons and up onto the plateaus

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10/04/2026

Five of the coolest caves I’ve visited across the state:

- Caverns of Sonora: Sonora, TX
- Old Tunnel State Park: Fredericksburg, TX
- Longhorn Cavern State Park - Texas Parks and Wildlife: Burnet, TX
- Devil’s Sinkhole State Natural Area: Rocksprings, TX
- Inner Space Cavern: Georgetown, TX

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Lots to see out there deep in the piney woods…Aldridge Sawmill in the first slide was a really cool one for me recently....
10/03/2026

Lots to see out there deep in the piney woods…

Aldridge Sawmill in the first slide was a really cool one for me recently. It’s an old abandoned sawmill deep in the Angelina National Forest. I’ll have a video out on it this coming week.

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10/03/2026

Casa de Azucar, or the El Paso Sugar House, is an incredible decades long project by Rufino Loya Rivas that began in 1973 and transformed his home into a work of art.

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10/02/2026

Lightnin’ Hopkins became one of the great Blues musicians of his time, but he & many others got their start playing for tips along Camp Street, a historic Black business district in Crockett, TX.

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10/02/2026

This is a historic black cemetery in Bandera, TX on land once owned by Hendrick Arnold, a free African-American that received this land as payment for fighting in the Texas Revolution. And like so much of history, his story is complicated.

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10/01/2026

Chipita Rodriguez of San Patricio, TX was charged with the murder of John Savage in 1863 and sentenced to death by hanging. Since then, she’s been the subject of numerous ghost stories, books, plays and even operas.

Then in 1985, the Texas Legistlature passed a resolution that absolved Chipita of the murder.

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09/30/2026

Davy Crockett left Tennessee for Texas on November 1st, 1835, and he camped here beside a natural spring at what is now Crockett, TX in January 1836.

Just two months later, Crockett died fighting at The Battle of the Alamo.

🎨 Mural by Lucas Short
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09/30/2026

Mary Ellen Seminary opened in Crockett, TX in 1886 and is considered the first college in Texas to specifically serve African-American women.

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