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Discount Tire Company was founded by Bruce Halle as a tire shop in 1960, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Halle had taken out a $400 loan to open the store, originally having six tires from a previous failed automotive supply company.
Bruce Thomas Halle [2] [3] (May 27, 1930 – January 4, 2018) was an American businessman, and the founder and chairman of Discount Tire. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] He was the wealthiest person in Arizona , with an estimated net worth of $5.2 billion at the time of his death.
The original county seat of Santa Ana County is what is now Fort Defiance, Arizona. The county was named after the Pueblo of Santa Ana. The county was named after the Pueblo of Santa Ana. The area enclosed by the original Santa Ana County was in Judicial District No. 1 from 1847 to 1863, then in JD 2 until 1876, when it was absorbed by ...
The Heritage Museum of Orange County, formerly the Exploratory Learning Center and the Discovery Museum of Orange County, is a historical museum in Santa Ana, California. In addition to being a museum, it also functions as an events center and educational program host.
Santa Ana Pueblo (Eastern Keres: Tamaya [tʰɑmɑjːɑ]) is a settlement in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States, of Native Americans who speak an eastern dialect of the Keresan languages. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined this community as a census-designated place (CDP).
The State of New Mexico amends its Constitution changing the name of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts to New Mexico State University. April 1 The 1960 United States census enumerates the population of the State of New Mexico, later determined to be 951,023, an increase of 39.6% since the 1950 United States census .
The community of Las Trampas, New Mexico was founded the same year. The grant consisted of 28,132 acres (11,385 ha) of land on the western slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The settlers served as a buffer on the frontiers of New Mexico to fend off Comanche raids. By the mid 19th century the population of the grant area had grown to ...
New Mexico: A History (U of Oklahoma Press, 2013) 384pp; Simmons, Marc. New Mexico: An Interpretive History, 221 pages, University of New Mexico Press 1988, ISBN 0-8263-1110-5, short introduction; Szasz, Ferenc M. Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth (2nd ed. 2006). Weber, David J. “The Spanish Borderlands, Historiography Redux.”