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The original house was built for sea captain A. F. Higgs, entrepreneur of the Texas Continental Meat Co., possibly in the 1850s. Joe M. Pickering, a businessman and co-founder of the Anchor Lumber Co., bought the house in 1908. [2] It was listed on the NRHP as part of a study which listed numerous historic resources in the Victoria area. [3]
At that time, the city was a bewildering array of street names that matched streets in yet unannexed areas, which led to a lot of confusion. Mapsco was the only accurate map of the newly sprawling Sunbelt metropolis. By the late 1950s a Mapsco map became a status symbol. [1] [4] 1955 Dallas Mapsco detail
From the southeast, US 171 Bus. begins at a junction with mainline US 171 just east of the Zwolle corporate limits. The route heads west into town on North Main Street alongside the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) line. In the center of town, signage directs motorists south on Obrie Street toward North Toledo Bend State Park. US 171 Bus ...
The Port of Victoria is a shallow-draft port in Victoria, Texas (United States). It was opened in 1968 by creation of a 35-mile barge canal (dredged to a depth of 9 feet) linking Victoria, Texas to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW). (Coincidentally, it was Victoria that held the first meeting in 1905 which led to the creation of the GIWW, a ...
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The family of Alison Pickering told CBS News that they hope to raise awareness of food allergies after they say she died despite being careful and cognizant of her allergy — even when eating out ...
In 1867, Pickering's first brick school building was constructed at the southwest corner of Kingston Road and Church Street, in present-day Ajax. Called Pickering Public School S.S. #4 West, it was a one-storey structure. [25] The building was abandoned in 1888, when a larger two-storey brick school was built on Church Street, north of Kingston ...