Rio Grande Public Library

Research

BOOKS, HOMEWORK +
Book Connections

RGC Public Library has a one-stop that provides resources for books you are reading and teaching, including author and illustrator interviews, lesson plans, and other enrichment content. has a subscription to TeachingBooks — a website that generates enthusiasm for books and reading in our community.
Find book trailers, movies with authors, audio performances, discussion questions, and more — all great ways to engage with books together!

LOCAL HISTORY

Rio Grande Herald

Available through the support of Rescuing Texas History in partnership with the Rio Grande City Public Library, the Rio Grande Herald collection documents nearly forty years of Rio Grande City's heritage.

History
Originally a transfer point of supplies and soldiers for military support of General Zachary Taylor's campaign against Mexico, Rio Grande City is situated on the Texas-Mexico border and was first settled in 1846. Organized on land owned by wealthy heiress Hilaria de la Garza Falcon, the town was formed when she and her husband, Henry Clay Davis, plotted out her land into the skeleton of a formal city, which rapidly developed into a highly successful hub of trade and commerce between Texas and Mexico, until the 1883 opening of the Texas Mexican Railroad