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Victor Prosper Considerant, founder and first director of the colony. Advance agent François Cantagrel was sent ahead to purchase land, departing from Belgium October 3. When he arrived in Texas, he unfortunately found that the abandoned Fort Worth, which Considerant had hoped to use as a base for the colony, was no longer available.
Fort Saint-Louis, Texas, was founded in 1685 by French explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle and members of his expedition, including Jesuit missionary Zenobius Membre, on the banks of Garcitas Creek, a few kilometers inland from the mouth of the Lavaca River.
The Colony voted to become an incorporated city in January 1977 [17] [18] and became a Home Rule City in 1979. [19] Residents of The Colony participated in two polls to select a name for the new city. Both polls chose the name "The Colony" and the name was ratified by the City Council in May 1977. [20]
Antioch Colony was founded by former slaves in 1870. [2] About a dozen families purchased land from Joseph F. Rowley and established a farming community, raising cows and horses, and planting corn, sugarcane and cotton. [ 3 ]
1833 map of Coahuila and Texas; Austin's Colony is the large pink area in the southeast. The "Old Three Hundred" were 297 grantees who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin in Mexican Texas. Each grantee was head of a household, or, in some cases, a partnership of unmarried men.
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Map of the French fort drawn by a member of the Spanish expedition that discovered the French colony in 1689. It marks the river, the colony's structures, and location of cannons. In early June, La Salle summoned the rest of the colonists from the temporary campsite to the new settlement site.
Feeding America is a United States–based non-profit organization that is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that feed more than 46 million people through food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and other community-based agencies. [3] Forbes ranks it as the largest U.S. charity by revenue. [4]