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Melissa was an important shipping point in the early 1900s. Corn, wheat, alfalfa hay, wood, and livestock were all sent out on the railroad. A deadly F4 tornado struck Melissa on April 13, 1921, killing 13 people and injuring many more. The tornado tore the roof off of the brick school building, but the children inside were not seriously injured.
The population was 150,108 at the 2020 census, [3] and making it the 22nd-most populous city in Texas. Mesquite is positioned at the crossroads of four major highways (Interstates 30, 635, 20, and U.S. Route 80), making locations such as downtown Dallas, Lake Ray Hubbard, Dallas Love Field, and DFW International Airport accessible.
The community may have been named for a local cattle brand; it may also have been named after Anchor, Illinois, the native home of an early settler. [2] An episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, number 146, entitled "Remember the Alimony", was set in Anchor. In the episode, the town was moved to very near the Mexican border and given an army base.
1880 Map of the Houston and Texas Central Railway. The stagnating state of the economy of Collin County would change with the arrival of the railroads. In 1872, the Houston and Texas Central Railroad arrived in Collin County connecting McKinney and Plano to markets as far south as Houston , ushering in a 50 year period of economic growth inside ...
Before she found one, she convinced the indie distributor Film Rise and Canal+ Docs, who acquired her 2020 death row doc “The State of Texas vs. Melissa,” to provide most of the film’s ...
Our map of the Texas wildfires’ size compares it to other places. The fires cover nearly the area of Delaware, and the most massive blaze is larger than Rhode Island. Map: See how the largest ...
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Despite premiering at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, ranking among Hulu’s most-watched documentaries and garnering high-profile support, Sabrina Van Tassel’s “The State of Texas vs. Melissa ...