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Illustration by Kathleen Fu 1. The Panhandle. Thanks to simple geometry, the Texas Panhandle is perhaps the easiest of the state’s eleven regions to delineate.

So in 1839, after Mirabeau B. Lamar became president of Texas, the capital was moved to a Central Texas settlement on the Colorado River named Waterloo, later renamed in honor of Stephen F. Austin.