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The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Plainview, Texas. Pages in category "People from Plainview, Texas" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The Plainview Herald, formerly the Plainview Daily Herald, is the city's only remaining newspaper. It was acquired from local owners by Hearst Communications in 1979. It is among the oldest newspapers in Texas still in publication, and became fully computer paginated in 1994, the same year it began publishing an online edition.
People from Plainview, Texas (26 P) Plainview Ponies players (5 P) W. Wayland Baptist University (3 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Plainview, Texas"
Julian Harvey "Jay" Swayze (27 October 1923 – 12 June 1981) was an architect from Plainview, Texas best known for his creation of Underground World Home at the 1964 New York World's Fair, which proved to be not popular at the fair. [1]
Nicholas Henry Darnell (1807–1885), leader of 18th Texas Cavalry Regiment, known as "Darnell's Regiment"; Speaker of House for both Republic of Texas and state of Texas; Dick Dowling (1838–1867), commander at Sabine Pass and famous Houstonian; John "Rip" Ford (1815–1897), Texas Rangers legend and commander at Battle of Palmito Ranch
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Four years later, in 1877, he purchased the Long S Ranch from Plainview to Big Spring, Texas, on the Staked Plains, the largest ranch in West Texas. [2] [5] That same year, he cofounded the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. [2] In 1873, he co-founded the City Bank, later known as City National Bank. [1]
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