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Ben Franklin is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 38 and 128 on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, 4 mi (6.4 km) northeast of Pecan Gap, 11 mi (18 km) north of Cooper, 16 mi (26 km) southwest of Paris, and 77 mi (124 km) northeast of Dallas in northwestern Delta County.
Benjamin Franklin Highsmith ... "Highsmith, Benjamin Franklin (1817–1905)". Handbook of Texas (online ed.). Texas State Historical Association. Further reading.
Texas began convict leasing by 1883 and abolished it officially in 1910. [23] A cemetery containing what are believed to be the remains of 95 "slave convicts" has recently (2018) been discovered in Sugar Land, now a suburb of Houston. [24] The Convict Lease System and Lynch Law are twin infamies which flourish hand in hand in many of the United ...
He was murdered by John Wayne Gacy and his body was dumped into the Des Plaines River, as Gacy had no more space for bodies in his crawl space. [205] Murdered 6 months 1978 Steven Hicks: 18 United States of America On June 18, 1978, [262] Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Mark Hicks, who was almost 19.
Benjamin Franklin Terry (February 18, 1821 – December 17, 1861) raised and commanded the 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment, popularly known as Terry's Texas Rangers, during the American Civil War. A slave owner, planter and prominent citizen of Fort Bend County , he organized the regiment for the Confederate States Army .
This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Texas. There are four properties listed on the National Register in the county. One property is a State Antiquities Landmark while another is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.
Social Security is the U.S. government's biggest program; as of June 30, 2024, about 67.9 million people, or one in five Americans, collected Social Security benefits. This year, we're seeing a...
Benjamin Franklin's mother, Abiah, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wife, Mary Morrell Folger, a former indentured servant.