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What is an Aransas? The origin of our county's name.

What is an Aransas? The origin of our county's name.

Update: 2021-05-05
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On visiting Aransas County you may have asked yourself, what is an Aransas? On today's episode, On today's episode of Parlor Talks, the Fulton Mansion newest educator, Ashley Thornton, joins in to discuss where the term originated from and how it came here to the Texas coast. The story takes us from the earliest Spanish explorers of Texas to the Fulton's time building an early town on the Live Oak Peninsula, Aransas City.

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What is an Aransas? The origin of our county's name.

What is an Aransas? The origin of our county's name.

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