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Henri Castro was one of the most important
empresarios of the
Republic of Texas. Only
Stephen F. Austin was responsible for bringing more colonists to Texas as an empresario. Castro was a
French diplomat of
Jewish and
Portuguese descent, and he would later become an American citizen. The hundreds of families he recruited to emigrate to Texas came primarily from the
Haut-Rhin region of
Alsace, and they settled in the
Medina River valley, just west of
San Antonio. The city of
Castroville on the Medina is named for him, as is
Castro County in the
Texas Panhandle. Castro himself settled for a time in Castroville.
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