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The Texas Veterans Land Board, also known as VLB, is part of the Texas General Land Office. Created by the Texas Legislature in 1946, the board was established to make land available to veterans returning from World War II. Today, the organization finances land, home loans and home improvement loans for Texas veterans and active military ...
The Texas Legislature enacted the Veterans Land Act in November 1946 which created the Texas Veterans Land Board as a division of the General Land Office (GLO). The measure called for issuing $25 million in bonds , the proceeds of which would be used by the state government to purchase land and resell it to veterans of World War II at 3% ...
After World War II, Giles conceived of a plan to reward Texas' veterans with the ability to buy land at low interest rates subsidized by the taxpayers. In 1946, the voters amended the state constitution to authorize $100 million in public funds to enable veterans to buy land, creating the Texas Veterans Land Board. Under the program, qualified ...
Sep. 5—AUSTIN — Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D. announced Thursday the Texas Veterans Land Board's (VLB) veterans-only land sale is now open for bidding. Five tracks in four ...
Jun. 10—AUSTIN — Texas Land Commissioner Dr. Dawn Buckingham announced Monday the Texas Veterans Land Board's (VLB) Veterans-only land sale is now open for bidding. Eight tracks, totaling over ...
Aug. 15—AUSTIN — Texas Land Commissioner and Texas Veterans Land Board (VLB) Chairwoman Dr. Dawn Buckingham announced Thursday that the Lamun-Lusk-Sanchez Texas State Veterans Home (TSVH) in ...
Camp Fannin was a U.S. Army Infantry Replacement Training Center and prisoner-of-war camp located near Tyler, Texas. It was opened in May 1943 and operated for four years, before closing in 1946. It was opened in May 1943 and operated for four years, before closing in 1946.
The memorial, a replica of the state's pillar at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., was by designed by an unknown artist and erected by the Texas World War II Memorial Committee and Texas State Preservation Board in 2007. It features a 17-foot (5.2 m) granite column with a bronze oak and wheat wreath. [1]