NEWS FEATURE

Decades after Texas took part of its historic farm, a family fights again to save its land from a highway expansion

Daniel Alexander was enslaved when he founded a farm before the Civil War. 175 years later, his family is fighting to keep it intact as Texas plans to expand U.S. Highway 183.

By Timia Cobb, The Texas Tribune
Posted 6/3/22

With a cowboy hat atop her head and fresh flowers in hand, Rosalind Alexander-Kasparik walked from her family farm on a Tuesday afternoon this spring to the adjacent private cemetery where …

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