Since the beginning of time when the Almighty reached out and created the planets above, stars have always mesmerized mankind.  They have come to symbolize many things as time passed.  People wondered at them, began to "gaze" at them, and have always held them in a mystic way.   In more modern times, they began to symbolize freedom and liberty, as was reflected in the stars added to the American Flag in the 1770's.

Dr. Charles Bellinger Stewart was the first "de-facto" Secretary of State for the young Republic of Texas.  He assisted in penning the Texas Declaration of Independence and signed the document first.  Dr. Stewart had a single star button that had been rumored to have come off his own clothes, handed down through the years within his family.  Several years later, when asked by the President of the Republic of Texas to come up with a design, Dr. Stewart used this "Lone Star" to create the Seal of the great Republic and assisted in designing the current "Lone Star" flag.

Just as Dr. Stewart found this button with a star on it to be a symbol of Freedom and Liberty, standing alone it represented something more... Independence.

Today, it is much more than a star.  It is the basis that a new Republic was built on and lives as "large as life" in symbolizing the history of the only State in the nation to have been its own, independent country.

May God bless and protect Texas until time is no more.