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The family name endures in southeast Fort Worth. The Wilkerson-Greines Activity Center, a $7.4 million, high school athletic facility with an indoor Olympic-size pool and a 5,000 seat basketball ...
Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Brownsville, Texas" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
It was later renamed Fort Brown in honor of Major Jacob Brown, [12] one of two soldiers who died during the siege of Fort Texas. [11] [13] Charles Stillman arrived in Matamoros in 1828 from Connecticut to help his father in the mercantile business. [11] Brownsville became part of Texas after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.
The Stonegate Mansion was located at the edge of the Stonegate neighborhood in Fort Worth, TX near the Texas Christian University campus on a hill overlooking downtown Fort Worth. Built by multimillionaire oilman T. Cullen Davis , the mansion, once a private home, has been a restaurant, a church and most recently has been renovated to become an ...
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, chartered under the laws of Texas on June 1, 1885, was part of a plan conceived by Buckley Burton Paddock and other Fort Worth civic leaders to create a transcontinental route linking New York, Fort Worth, and the Pacific port of Topolobampo, which they believed would stimulate the growth and development of southwest Texas in general, and the economy of ...
U.S. Route 281 (US 281) is a United States Numbered Highway that runs from Brownsville near the Mexican border in the Rio Grande Valley to the Canadian border near Dunseith, North Dakota. In the state of Texas, the highway is a major south–north corridor, connecting Brownsville to the Oklahoma state line at the Red River in Burkburnett.
The University of Texas at Brownsville (abbreviated as UTB and formerly known as the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College [UTB/TSC]) was an educational institution located in Brownsville, Texas. The university was on the land once occupied by Fort Brown. It was a member of the University of Texas System.
The Northern Plains' climate is semi-arid and is prone to drought, annually receiving between 16 and 32 inches (410 and 810 mm) of precipitation, and average annual snowfall ranging between 15 and 30 inches (380 and 760 mm), with the greatest snowfall amounts occurring in the Texas panhandle and areas near the border with New Mexico.