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Griffith is located on Texas State Highway 114, 70 mi (110 km) west of Lubbock and 2 mi (3.2 km) east of the New Mexico state line in northwestern Cochran County. [ 2 ] Education
The types of municipalities in Texas are defined in the Local Government Code, which was codified in 1987. The designations of city, town and village were superseded by Type A, B, and C general-law cities in the code. [5] In Texas, there are two forms of municipal government: general-law and home-rule.
Fort Griffin, now a Texas state historic site as Fort Griffin State Historic Site, was a US Cavalry fort established 31 July 1867 by four companies of the Sixth Cavalry, U.S. Army [2] under the command of Lt. Col. S. D. Sturgis, [3]: 64 in the western part of North Texas, specifically northwestern Shackelford County, to give settlers protection from early Comanche and Kiowa raids.
The bill came to $45,589. On Thursday evening, the arguments for and against the fences got fleshed out at a meeting of the Griffith Park Advisory Board. “No one likes a fence, but fences are ...
Griffing Park is an area of Port Arthur, Texas, United States, formerly a separate city in Jefferson County. It incorporated on November 13, 1929, the same year Port Arthur began its attempts to annex it. The proposed annexations were blocked by injunctions; the first was removed on November 26, 1929, and the second began in May 1930.
The town plan for Griffith, and nearby Leeton, was designed by Walter Burley Griffin in 1914, an unusual geometric pattern centred on a set of circular streets, with broad avenues radiating out in an octagonal arrangement. [6] [7] The streets were surveyed mostly according to that plan, and Griffith was declared a town in August 1916. [8]
In 1841, Wightman sold his Texas lands [1] and moved to Covington, Kentucky, looking for a more healthy climate. He died there on October 26, 1841. [3] In the 1980s some of Wightman's surveyor notes were placed in the Matagorda County Museum in Bay City, Texas. [1] His compass, which he shared with William Selkirk, can be seen there as well. [4]
The Felix Longoria Texas Historical Marker. In 1920 natural gas was discovered near Three Rivers and was piped into town and a small refinery was built. The first glass factory in Texas was built at Three Rivers in 1922 as the gas fuel and local sand was plentiful. [7]