Editing Travis County, Texas (section)

===Republican period===
{{Further|Republic of Texas}}
In 1836 Texas [[Texas Declaration of Independence|declared]] and [[Texas Revolution|won]] its independence from Mexico, forming a new Republic of Texas. After Texas Vice President [[Mirabeau B. Lamar]] visited [[central Texas]] during a [[American bison|buffalo]]-hunting expedition between 1837 and 1838, he proposed that the republic's capital (then located in [[Houston]]) be relocated to a site on the north bank of the [[Colorado River (Texas)|Colorado River]]. In 1839 the site was officially chosen as the republic's new capital and given the name [[Waterloo, Texas|Waterloo]]; shortly thereafter the city's name was changed to [[Austin, Texas|Austin]] in honor of [[Stephen F. Austin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/ahc/faq2.htm|title=Austin Public Library|website=Austin Public Library|access-date=March 20, 2018}}</ref> A new county was also established the following year, of which Austin would be the seat; the county was named '''Travis County''', after [[William B. Travis]]. Though the Republic's capital moved briefly back to Houston during the events surrounding the [[Texas Archive War]], by 1845 Austin was again the capital, and it became the capital of the new State of Texas when Texas was [[Annexation of Texas|annexed]] by the United States later that year.