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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 ...
Celestis, Inc. is a company that launches cremated human remains into space, a procedure known as a space burial.It is a subsidiary of the private space company Space Services Inc. [1] The company purchases launches as a secondary payload on various launch vehicles, and launches samples of a person's cremated remains.
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.
The auctioneer would give Texas the first chance the buy the used border wall materials, should they go back up for sale, Patrick wrote. "Governor (Greg) Abbott and I stand ready to buy them if ...
It is the focal piece of the Memorial Hall of the Franklin Institute, which was designed by John Windrim and modeled after the Roman Pantheon. The statue and Memorial Hall were designated as the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial in 1972. It is the primary location memorializing Benjamin Franklin in the U.S. [3]
Sixty-one years ago, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in a shocking tragedy that still echoes. The JFK assassination sent the nation into mourning ...