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Hitchcock was created as a station of the railroad between Galveston and Houston in 1873 and around the turn of the 20th century, it became a vegetable shipping center. The settlement's economy crashed in the 1930s after insect plagues in the surrounding areas, and the area stayed impoverished until the establishment of Camp Wallace [4] an anti-aircraft training base and the Naval Air Station ...
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce was founded in Fort Worth, Texas in December 1918. [1] Its first convention took place in Mineral Wells, Texas in 1919. [1] Its first chairman was Colonel Cornelius T. Herring, a rancher, banker and hotelier. [1] It published West Texas Today. [1] It merged with the Texas Chamber of Commerce in Austin, Texas ...
In 1924, the Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce established the first Women's Department of a chamber of commerce in the United States, organized by May McGhee, a member of the Woman's Club of El Paso. Kate Moore Brown served as the department's first chairman-director. [4] Each year, the department resolved to undertake a civic project. In ...
Fort Hancock in 1916. Fort Hancock is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hudspeth County, Texas, United States.Its population was 1,052 at the 2020 census.
Crystal Beach is served by the Bolivar Chamber of Commerce, which is the official source for business, tourism and government information for the Bolivar Peninsula. Crystal Beach and the entire Bolivar Peninsula suffered catastrophic damage from Hurricane Ike on September 12–13, 2008. [ 3 ]
A chamber of commerce, or board of trade, is a form of business network. For example, a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of ...
The Greater Houston Partnership (GHP) is the largest chamber of commerce in the Houston area. The Partnership is an economic development organization for the Greater Houston area. The Partnership works to make Houston greater by promoting economic development, foreign trade and investment, and by advocating for efficient and effective ...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was founded at a meeting of delegates on April 22, 1912. [13] An important catalyst for the creation of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce were two prior business engagements between the U.S. and Japan. In 1908, Eiichi Shibusawa invited the first official, modern day U.S. business delegation to visit Japan.