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There are seven districts, 62 individual properties, and one former property listed on the National Register in the county. Sixteen individually listed properties are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks while four districts contain many more including one that is also a State Antiquities Landmark .
The federal government intervened, taking over the property, selling again it in 1990 for only $61 million. Such losses were a common outcome in the government's disposal of real estate assets during the bailouts of the savings and loan crisis. Ownership transferred to Yukio Kitano, representing the largest-ever Japanese investment in Texas ...
Most of McKinney's land and the house were sold to James W. Smith in 1885, Smith's grandchildren granted 682 acres (2.76 km 2) to the state of Texas in 1974. It opened as McKinney Falls State Park in 1976. The former homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It has since been stabilized to prevent further ...
McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States. [7] It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano and Frisco.A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about 32 miles (51 km) north of Dallas.
The oldest federal civil building in Texas, the 1861 Customs and Courthouse in Galveston, housed headquarters for the Eastern District of Texas between 1861–1891. Federal Courthouse in Galveston that housed the Eastern District court from 1891–1902, when the Southern District of Texas was created.
East Texas is a broadly defined cultural, geographic, and ecological region in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas that comprises most of 41 counties. It is primarily divided into Northeast and Southeast Texas. Most of the region consists of the Piney Woods ecoregion. East Texas can sometimes be defined only as the Piney Woods. [1]
Finch House may refer to: . James W. Finch House, Monterey, California, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP); John A. Finch Caretaker's House, Hayden Lake, Idaho, listed on the NRHP in Kootenai County, Idaho
McKinney Roughs Nature Park is a 1,140-acre (460 ha) nature park and archaeological site in Cedar Creek, Texas, United States. Located about 13 mi (21 km) east of Austin and next to the Colorado River , the park features 17.6 mi (28.3 km) of trails for hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding.