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This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Midland County, Texas. There are five properties listed on the National Register in the county including two that are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks .
David J. Porter, Republican, Texas Railroad Commission member, 2010–2016; Carol Schwartz, former member of the D.C. city council, raised in Midland; W. E. "Pete" Snelson, member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature from Midland; later an educational consultant in Austin; Clayton Williams, businessman and 1990 gubernatorial candidate
Sandstorm, 1894 Main Street, 1894. Midland was established in June 1881 as Midway Station, on the Texas and Pacific Railway.Its name came from its central location between Fort Worth and El Paso, but because there were already other towns in Texas named Midway, the city changed its name to Midland in January 1884 when it was granted its first post office.
Location of Val Verde County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register Historic Places in Val Verde County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Val Verde County, Texas. There are seven districts and four individual properties listed on the ...
Land of the High Sky: History of Midland County of West Texas from 1849 to the Present. First National Bank of Midland. OCLC 731414735. Robert H. Ryan; Leonard G. Schifrin (1959), Midland: The Economic Future of a Texas Oil Center, Austin: University of Texas Bureau of Business Research, OCLC 1073160; Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien.
The Val Verde's structural architecture devolved mainly during the Early Carboniferous to Late Permian period during the Ouachita orogeny. This produced minor structural folding throughout the basin. Today, the Val Verde Basin is a major gas producing system and has recently been recognized for harboring over 5 tcf (trillion cubic feet) of ...
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The Mexican grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis, formerly Ursus arctos nelsoni) [1] is an extinct population of the grizzly bear in the Southwestern United States and Mexico. The specimen later designated the holotype of U. a. nelsoni was shot by H. A. Cluff at Colonia Garcia, Chihuahua , in 1899. [ 2 ]