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  2. Coffield Unit - Wikipedia

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    The prison, near Tennessee Colony, is along Farm to Market Road 2054. The unit, on a 20,518 acres (8,303 ha) plot of land, is co-located with Beto, Gurney, Michael, and Powledge units. [2] With a capacity of 4,139 inmates, Coffield is the TDCJ's largest prison. [3] Coffield opened in June 1965. [2] In 2011 the Stiles Unit metal products plant ...

  3. Colonial history of Missouri - Wikipedia

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    The earliest recorded use of "Missouri" is found on a map drawn by Marquette after his 1673 journey, naming both a group of Native Americans and a nearby river. [1] However, the French rarely used the word to refer to the land in the region, instead calling it part of the Illinois Country. [1]

  4. Joe F. Gurney Transfer Facility - Wikipedia

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    The unit is along Farm to Market Road 2054, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Tennessee Colony. The unit, on 20,518 acres (8,303 ha) of land, is co-located with the Beto (directly across the road), Coffield, Michael and Powledge prison. The unit closed temporarily in December 2020. [2] [3] It is named for Sergeant Joe F. Gurney.

  5. List of plantations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Greenwood (Columbia, Missouri) January 15, 1979 Columbia: Boone: Also known as Greenwood Heights 83000994 Greenwood (Fayette, Missouri) March 29, 1983 Fayette vicinity Howard: Also known as the Estill-Parrish House 12000563 Hunter-Dawson House: August 28, 2012: New Madrid: New Madrid: Also known as the Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site 70000348

  6. Mark W. Michael Unit - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of the Coffield Prison Farm Property (The Michael, Beto, Coffield, Gurney, and Powledge units) 1977 United States Geological Survey map of the land which now houses the Michael Unit The Mark W. Michael Unit ( MI ) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's prison located in unincorporated Anderson County , Texas . [ 1 ]

  7. Peach - Wikipedia

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    Also in 1629, peaches were listed as a crop in New Mexico. [67] William Penn noted the existence of wild peaches in Pennsylvania in 1683. [68] In fact, peaches may have already spread to the American Southeast by the early to mid 1600s, actively cultivated by indigenous communities such as the Muscogee before permanent Spanish settlement of the ...

  8. History of Missouri - Wikipedia

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    By the mid-1850s, some Missouri slave owners were selling surplus slave labor to the growing cotton-growing states of Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. [108] Outspoken opponents of slavery, though a small minority in Missouri before the Civil War convinced many people that slavery had to end. [109]

  9. John Mitchell (geographer) - Wikipedia

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    John Mitchell (April 13, 1711 – February 29, 1768) was a colonial American physician and botanist.He created the most comprehensive and perhaps largest 18th-century map of eastern North America, known today as the Mitchell Map.