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Location of Collin County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Collin County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Collin County, Texas. There are seven districts, 62 individual properties, and one former ...
Mountain View is a neighborhood in Northeast El Paso, in the city of El Paso, Texas.Its boundaries are commonly considered to be Dyer Street on the west, Railroad Drive on the east, Hondo Pass Avenue on the north, and on the south, Hercules Avenue and the intersection of Diana Drive and Railroad Drive; this includes the city-designated neighborhoods of Las Sierras and Restlawn (around the ...
Round Mountain is an unincorporated community in Travis County, in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas , the community had a population of 59 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Austin metropolitan area.
Married to Mary Strickland, Joe R. Burch arrived in Texas in the early 1850s and erected a house in what would become Mountain Springs in 1856. Founded in 1875, the post office was housed in Burch's home. There is a spring beside his house on a slope, which is why the name Mountain Springs (or Mountain Spring) was chosen. A store was opened by ...
The first settlers, such as Chattanooga native Phillip Allen and his family, landed in Mountain City around the time of the Texas Revolution in 1835 and 1836. Allen had acquired more than 4,600 acres (19 km 2) of land in what would become northern Hays County from Ben Milam's colony grant from the Republic of Texas. But American Indians in the ...
The county had the sixth-highest unemployment rate in the country in 1986, with 29.7% unemployment. [29] The Texas Almanac listed 15 ranches in the county in 1986–1987, with the average size being above 23,000 acres and being worth above an average of $4 million. The county has one of the highest per capita incomes in the United States due to ...
This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes.
The Stonegate Mansion was located at the edge of the Stonegate neighborhood in Fort Worth, TX near the Texas Christian University campus on a hill overlooking downtown Fort Worth. Built by multimillionaire oilman T. Cullen Davis , the mansion, once a private home, has been a restaurant, a church and most recently has been renovated to become an ...