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Around 1873, 12 years after Collin McKinney's death, the few inhabitants of Mantua moved several miles northeast to Van Alstyne, Texas, on the new Houston and Texas Central Railway from Sherman to McKinney and on to Galveston. Today, Mantua is a ghost town of Collin County, with just an old, unmarked cemetery.
The Houston and Texas Central Railway extended its track in a north–south route several miles east of Mantua in 1872. Mantua soon declined in favor of the new railroad towns of Van Alstyne (Grayson County) and Anna which developed here in early 1880s.
Van Alstyne is a city in Grayson and Collin Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 3,046 at the 2010 census , [ 5 ] up from 2,502 at the 2000 census. The Grayson County portion of Van Alstyne is part of the Sherman – Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Mantua Road: Collin–Grayson county line: Van Alstyne: 45.0: 72.4: 50: County Line Road: Grayson: 46.2: 74.4: 51: FM 121 (Van Alstyne Parkway) Due to confusion between this road and SH 121 to the south, southbound signs are marked "DFW Traffic Use Exit 38C" Van Alstyne–Howe city line: 49.7: 80.0: 52: Blythe Road/West Farmington Road: Howe ...
The first layer is dated to 27,000 to 16,000 years ago, and was done by carbon dating the soil drilled from the site. They also believe that the technology shows sculpted stonework ...
Grayson College's south campus in Van Alstyne. The main campus is located in Denison, with a branch campus in Van Alstyne.The main campus (consisting of the east campus and the west extension) is in a rural setting near North Texas Regional Airport.
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Jacquet of Mantua (Jacques Colebault, dit Jachet de Mantoue) (1483 – October 2, 1559) was a French [1] composer of the Renaissance, who spent almost his entire life in Italy. He was an influential member of the generation between Josquin and Palestrina , and represents well the transitional polyphonic style between those two composers.