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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 War of the Mantuan Succession (1628–1631) was a conflict related to the Thirty Years' War and was caused by the death in December 1627 of Vincenzo II, the last male heir in the direct line of the House of Gonzaga and the ruler of the duchies of Mantua and Montferrat.
The Van Alstyne's Regiment of Militia, also known as the 7th Albany County Militia Regiment, was called up in July, 1777 at Kinderhook, New York to reinforce Gen. Horatio Gates's Continental Army during the Saratoga Campaign. The regiment served in Brigadier General Abraham Ten Broeck's Brigade.
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.
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 ...
By Joseph Ax, Rich McKay and Brad Brooks. NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the days since Luigi Mangione was charged with murder for gunning down a top health insurance executive, more than a thousand ...
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