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The late 1870s saw the building of New Mexico's first railroad, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway. As construction proceeded south from Raton Pass, survey crews were trying to find a site for a planned locomotive maintenance facility. Meanwhile, real estate speculators in Albuquerque hoped to profit from the railroad's arrival.
The Florida Seminole re-established limited relations with the U.S. government in the early 1900s and were officially granted 5,000 acres (20 km 2) of reservation land in south Florida in 1930. Members gradually moved to the land, and they reorganized their government and received federal recognition as the Seminole Tribe of Florida in 1957.
In the 1920s, Florida was in the midst of high real estate activity, where the state saw inflated real estate values and many coming into the state eager for profits. The market for real estate reached a peak in 1925, with the 1926 Miami hurricane and Wall Street crash of 1929 forcing little development in the state and a land bust. [6]
Serving first in Florida in the early part of the Third Seminole War, 1854-55 during which he was promoted Second Lieutenant, U. S. 3rd Artillery Regiment. On February 15, 1855, he became a Second Lieutenant, U. S. 1st Dragoon Regiment, March 3, 1855, being ordered on frontier duty, at Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory in 1856.
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Location of Seminole County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Seminole County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Seminole County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Sep. 21—BEECH ISLAND — A Victorian link to Aiken County's textile history has received some intense attention over the past couple of years, and potential buyers may get a look at an 1880s ...
There were more houses for sale on the Treasure Coast in October than in September, but they cost more, took longer to sell and fewer sold, according to data Florida Realtors released Nov. 21.