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  2. Telegraph, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Telegraph is a ghost town in Kimble County, Texas, United States, that is located along on U.S. Route 377, 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Junction. History [ edit ]

  3. Port Mansfield Channel - Wikipedia

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    The navigable waterway was channeled during the late 1950s ceremoniously cresting the intertidal zone of the Gulf of Mexico by September 1957 on the Texas Gulf Coast. [5] [6] Mansfield Channel Jetties. The marginal sea inlet was defined by wave-dissipating concrete blocks similarly referred to as tetrapods protracting into

  4. Lake Creek Settlement - Wikipedia

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    Advertisement for the sale of lots in the Town of Montgomery, Texas, Telegraph and Texas Register newspaper, July 8, 1837, published in Houston, Texas. Following the Revolution, the Republic of Texas reorganized some areas. Among the new jurisdictions was Washington County, composed of six large precincts.

  5. Texas Gulf Coast - Wikipedia

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    Texas Gulf Coast is an intertidal zone which borders the coastal region of South Texas, Southeast Texas, and the Texas Coastal Bend.The Texas coastal geography boundaries the Gulf of Mexico encompassing a geographical distance relative bearing at 367 miles (591 km) of coastline according to CRS [1] and 3,359 miles (5,406 km) of shoreline according to NOAA.

  6. Texas Irrigation Canals - Wikipedia

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    The First Lift Station in Mission in the Rio Grande Valley became a Texas Historic Landmark in 1985. Texas has many irrigation canals with the majority of large canal networks in the Rio Grande Valley and the Gulf Coast, though smaller systems are located throughout the state. Canals provide water to dry climates to irrigate crops.

  7. Timeline of North American telegraphy - Wikipedia

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    1872: Dallas, Texas reached by telegraph line. [115] October 1872: Australia is linked to the world system by a submarine telegraph line between Darwin and the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). 1874: Thomas Edison sells his invention of quadruplex telegraph to Western Union for $10,000. It allows a total of four separate signals to be transmitted ...

  8. Calders & Grandidge - Wikipedia

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    Calders Ltd was incorporated by Sir James Charles Calder CBE (28 December 1869- 22 August 1962) [1] of Milnathort, who was knighted in the 1921 Birthday Honours; he died in 1962 aged 92; he was Timber Controller at the Timber Supply Department of the Board of Trade from 1919–20; he was a friend of the American ambassador, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and his son; from 1940-41 he was Director of ...

  9. Mansfield Cut Underwater Archeological District - Wikipedia

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    The ships were loaded with precious metals and similar cargo. A storm off the coast of Cuba blew them across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of Texas. [3] On April 29, three of the ships ran aground with approximately 300 people aboard. The fourth ship, the San Andrés, reached Havana but was too damaged to repair. Few of the survivors made it ...