Stock Photo Description: Down Congress Avenue from the State Capitol in Austin TX is this statue of Angelina Eberly, known to some as the 'Savior of Austin,' as sculpted by renowned cartoonist Pat Oliphant. The sculpture shows Eberly about to light the fuse of the town cannon. In 1842, 6 years after the Texas republic won independence from Mexico, President Sam Houston thought Austin an inappropriate location for its capitol and lobbied to move it to a city he preferred: Houston. When Austin resisted, Houston sent his Texas Rangers to steal the government archives. Fiery local innkeeper Angelina Eberly heard the rangers loading their wagons in the middle of the night and hurried to the corner of what is now Sixth and Congress streets to fire the town cannon, missing the rangers but blowing a hole in a nearby building. The noise roused her neighbors, who chased the rangers and recovered the archives. If not for Eberly's impulsive act, Houston would now be the capital of Texas.
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Stock Photo of the Angelina Eberly Statue, Austin TX
