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Preston, also known as Preston Bend, [citation needed] is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located on the Red River in Grayson County, Texas, United States. It grew in the 19th century at the intersection of several military and trade roads and was an important crossing on the Shawnee cattle trail .
Preston is a ghost town in Wharton County in the U.S. state of Texas. The one-time settlement was located in the land grant belonging to Old Three Hundred settler John Huff near an important north–south trail. During the early years of the Republic of Texas, lots were sold and a town took shape. Postal service began in 1839 and ceased in 1857.
State Highway 289, known for most of its length as Preston Road, is a north–south Texas state highway. It begins at the intersection of Preston Road and Loop 12 /Northwest Highway in Dallas . The Preston Road designation comes from the fact that the highway generally follows the course of an older road known as the Preston Trail , which ran ...
Preston Earnest Smith (March 8, 1912 – October 18, 2003) was an American entrepreneur and politician who served as the 40th governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973. A member of the Democratic Party , he previously served as the 35th lieutenant governor from 1963 to 1969.
Preston Hollow is located 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Downtown Dallas.Preston Road is the main arterial road in the area. Terry Box of The Dallas Morning News said in 1987 that the corridor Preston Road travels through, between the Northwest Highway and the LBJ Freeway, is referred to as the "golden corridor" of Dallas due to its wealth.
Preston Trail became part of the first official Texas military road in 1839. In the autumn that year, Albert Sidney Johnston (who was at that time the Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas) sent soldiers under the command of Colonel William Gordon Cooke to build a road from the Brazos River to the Red River and establish frontier forts to protect settlers from Indian attacks.
De Loache became the main developer of Preston Hollow, an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas. [3] [4] [5] He purchased one hundred acres to start developing the area later to become known as Preston Hollow in 1930. [2] He retired in 1960. [3] [4] [5] He died on October 31, 1965, in a retirement facility in Dallas, Texas.
The Scanlan Building, located at 405 Main Street in Houston, Texas, is an eleven-story, 76,403sq.ft [3] building completed in 1909. Built on the site of the first official home of the president of the Republic of Texas, it was the first building of its size and type to be designed by a major national architect to be built in Houston, and set ...