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Also, the community had a high literacy rate. By the early 1900s residents worked in railroad occupations and later in industry. In 1911, an interurban line came through the community, and Highland Station opened; the Settlement was known as Highlands and La Marque until it was incorporated into the city limits of Texas City in the 1950s.
There are four districts and 19 individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. One property is a State Antiquities Landmark. Eight properties are designated Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks (RTHLs) while two districts and two more individual properties contain RTHLs within their boundaries.
Home of Republic of Texas legislator Jesse H. Cartwright. Casa Ortiz: Laredo: 1830 Built by Don Jose Reyes Ortiz and one of the oldest buildings in the city. Dale-Rugeley-Sisk Home: Matagorda: 1830 Home of the first Lieutenant Governor of Texas, A. C. Horton. James Jordan (Jardine) Log House: Montgomery: 1830 Republic of the Rio Grande Capitol ...
Mainland City Centre, formerly known as Mall of the Mainland, is now a Premier Entertainment & Lifestyle Center located off the Emmett F. Lowry Expressway [1] near Interstate 45 (Gulf Freeway) in Texas City, Texas. [2] It was opened in 1991. [3] The mall has 800,000 square feet (74,000 m 2) of space. [2]
The Lake Creek Settlement was located between the West Fork of the San Jacinto River (Texas) and the stream known as Lake Creek. It was the first Anglo-American settlement in what is today western Montgomery County, Texas. In July 1837, the town of Montgomery, Texas was founded in the middle of the Lake Creek Settlement, at the site of W. W ...
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The post, which later became the modern city of Anahuac, was the first major outpost on the mainland shores and temporarily replaced Galveston as a port of entry. [35] New Washington (modern Morgan's Point) and Austinia (within modern Texas City) were also founded by settlers from the company. [36]
The government liberalized its immigration policies, allowing for settlers from the United States to immigrate to Texas. [87] The German settlement in Mexico goes back to the times they settled Texas when it was under Spanish rule, but the first permanent settlement of Germans was at Industry, in Austin County, established by Friedrich Ernst ...