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George Coppell. The Coppell area was settled by German and French immigrants in the 1840s. Members of the Peters Colony also settled here in the 1840s. [8] Originally named Gibbs Station, after Barnett Gibbs (one of Texas's first lieutenant governors), the town was renamed in 1892 for George Coppell, a New York banker, who was born in Liverpool, England and probably moved to the United States ...
Location of Bastrop County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bastrop County, Texas.. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bastrop County, Texas.
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Jane Austen's parents, George (1731–1805), an Anglican rector, and his wife Cassandra (1739–1827), were members of the landed gentry. [1] George was descended from wool manufacturers who had risen to the lower ranks of the gentry, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Cassandra was a member of the Leigh family of Adlestrop and Longborough , with connections to ...
Cassandra Austen's drawing of Mary, Queen of Scots, from her sister Jane's manuscript The History of England. Austen was born in 1773 at a rectory in Steventon, Hampshire, to The Reverend George Austen (1731–1805), a rector, and his wife Cassandra, née Leigh (1739–1827). There were eight Austen children; as Cassandra and Jane were the only ...
U.S. Highway 83 (US 83), dedicated as the Texas Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway, is a U.S. Highway in the U.S. state of Texas that begins at US 77 (Interstate 69E, I-69E) in Brownsville and follows the Rio Grande to Laredo, then heads north through Abilene to the Oklahoma state line north of Perryton, the seat of Ochiltree County.
The U.S. route then serves as the eastern terminus of SH-144 near Octavia. US-259 reenters the national forest north of this junction, and intersects SH-63 at Big Cedar. It then has a junction with SH-1, the Talimena Drive. The highway reunites with US-59 about 10 miles (16 km) south of Heavener, reaching its northern terminus.
1880 Map of the Houston and Texas Central Railway. The stagnating state of the economy of Collin County would change with the arrival of the railroads. In 1872, the Houston and Texas Central Railroad arrived in Collin County connecting McKinney and Plano to markets as far south as Houston , ushering in a 50 year period of economic growth inside ...