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The Roma Historic District in Roma, Texas preserves an intact example of a border town in the lower Rio Grande valley. The town was an important port and transshipment point on the Rio Grande from 1829 to the 1880s. The architecture of Roma mirrors its sister city of Ciudad Mier on the Mexican side of the river, as well as Guerrero Viejo upriver.
Old Waverly, Texas, an unincorporated community in Walker County, Texas Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Old Waverly .
Several important buildings of the city appears along the street's path. Via Roma was designed with the 1885 Master Plan of Palermo (the so-called "Piano Giarrusso") [1] [2] and built between 1894 and 1936.
East Texas Traction - was grading an electric interurban between Dallas and Greenville via Garland and Rockwall between 1912 and bankruptcy in 1917. [ 225 ] Estacado and Gulf Railroad - began 1910 to build 10 miles (16 km) from McCaulley to Roby , hoping later to go on to El Paso and the Gulf of California .
Waverly, known today as Old Waverly, is an unincorporated community in Walker County, Texas, United States. It is located at the intersection of Texas State Highway 150 and Farm to Market Road 1725. Its population was 200 as of 2000. [1]
The Roma area became the Mexican state of Tamaulipas with the Mexican Constitution of 1824. Texas claimed Roma with the establishment of the Republic of Texas in 1835, but Mexico continued to control this area. A Texan force sought to take Roma in the Mier Expedition of 1842, which resulted in the death, capture, or execution of many volunteers.
FM 1187 begins at Interstate 20 (I-20) west of Fort Worth, north of Aledo.The highway runs south to Aledo, where it intersects FM 5.Here, FM 1187 turns to the east. The highway turns back to the south and has a short overlap with U.S. Route 377 (US 377) near Benbrook Lake in the unincorporated community of Wheatland.
Notable buildings include the Waverly Municipal Hall (c. 1880), Atlantic and Danville Railroad Station (c. 1883), Masonic Lodge/Town Hall (c. 1897), Boarding House (c. 1900), Moss Hardware Building (c. 1915), Fleetwood Building (1904), Warner Grammer Store (c. 1904), Wilcox Building (c. 1904), former Waverly Post Office/ Palace Cigar and Pool ...