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The site of the Jamestown glass works was described by Smith and mentioned by writer William Strachey. [29] Ruins were discovered in 1931, leading to the belief that the Jamestown glass works was located about one mile (1.6 km) from Jamestown at a place now known as Glass House Point. [30]
Oldcastle glass was created through the merging of multiple glass manufacturers, including Hordis Brothers (marketed as "Arm-R-Clad"), HGP Industries, [1] United Tempering Systems, North American Glass, O&W Glass, Downey Glass, Glass Distributors of America, General Glass, Tempglass, Armourguard Glass Products, Wescan Glass Industries, Free State Glass Industries, and Oldcastle Specialty Glass.
Evidence of glass during the chalcolithic has been found in Hastinapur, India. [24] The earliest glass item from the Indus Valley civilization is a brown glass bead found at Harappa, dating to 1700 BCE. This makes it the earliest evidence of glass in South Asia. [3] [25] Glass discovered from later sites dating from 600 to 300 BCE displays ...
Glass objects have been recovered across the Roman Empire [32] in domestic, funerary, [33] and industrial contexts, [34] as well as trade items in marketplaces in distant provinces. [35] [36] Examples of Roman glass have been found outside of the former Roman Empire in China, [37] the Baltics, the Middle East, and India. [38]
A state constitution adopted in 1876 mandated that Texas establish a "university of the first class" to be located by vote of the people and styled the University of Texas. On September 6, 1881, Austin was chosen for the site of the main university and Galveston for the location of the medical department.
The building was officially dedicated by Texas State Senator Temple Houston on May 18, 1888. [15] The dedication ceremony was marked by a weeklong celebration from May 14–19, 1888, that attracted nearly 20,000 visitors and included events such as military drill demonstrations, cattle roping, baseball games, German choral singing, and fireworks.
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The 14-story Praetorian Building was the first skyscraper west of the Mississippi River and the tallest building in Texas. Texan blacks, Mexican Americans and poor whites were excluded from much of the progress by being disfranchised when the state legislature imposed a poll tax in 1902.