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  2. Tolar, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Tolar is a city in Hood County, Texas, United States. Its population was 941 at the 2020 census . It is part of the Granbury, Texas micropolitan statistical area .

  3. Tolar Independent School District - Wikipedia

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    Tolar Independent School District is a public school district based in Tolar, Texas, United States. In addition to Tolar, the district also serves the community of Paluxy . In 2009, the school district was rated " academically acceptable " by the Texas Education Agency .

  4. William A. A. Wallace - Wikipedia

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    Coat of Arms of William "Bigfoot" Wallace. Wallace was born in Lexington, Virginia, to parents of Scots-Irish descent. When he learned that a brother and a cousin had been killed in the Goliad Massacre, he set out for Texas to "take pay out of the Mexicans"; years later, he confessed that he believed the account had been squared.

  5. History of Texas - Wikipedia

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    This map is the earliest recorded document of Texas history. [ 18 ] Between 1528 and 1535, four survivors of the Narváez expedition , including Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Estevanico , spent six and a half years in Texas as slaves and traders among various native groups.

  6. Tolar - Wikipedia

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    The tolar (German: Thaler) or Jáchymovský tolar was a silver coin minted in the Kingdom of Bohemia from 1520 until 1672 in Jáchymov (German: Joachimsthal). The obverse of the coin depicts Saint Joachim with the coat-of-arms of the noble family Schlik , who founded the mint in the Ore Mountains , with the titles of the Schlik brothers in ...

  7. Tolar, New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Tolar, New Mexico (pronounced TOL-er) [1] is a ghost town in the panhandle of northern Roosevelt County that existed in the 20th century. The site is at the intersection of New Mexico State Road 86 and U.S. Routes 60 and 84 between Fort Sumner in De Baca County and Melrose in Curry County .

  8. Baxter's Curve Train Robbery - Wikipedia

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    The fob said "Presented by passengers, west-bound Sunset Express, for bravery displayed March 13, 1912, near Dryden, Texas." [1] Although the Baxter's Curve Train Robbery is sometimes considered to be the last train robbery in Texas history, the Newton Gang robbed a Southern Pacific train near Uvalde in 1914. [1] [4] [5]

  9. Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long - Wikipedia

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    She then left Texas but returned in the later 1820s as a bona fide colonist. Jane Long claimed to be the first woman of English descent to settle in Texas, and her daughter Mary is often said to be the first child born in Texas to an English-speaking woman, [ 1 ] but this has been disproved by census records from 1807 to 1826 which show a ...