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The "Texas Midland Route".'''''}} |description = {{en|This promotional map of Texas, Indian Territory, and parts of surrounding states is quite unusual in its almost fluorescent coloration. The text on the back of the map advertises "300 miles of track" and "better and surer connections" with trains of the International and Great Northern Railroad.
On January 21, 1978, a ballot proposal to incorporate Alta Loma and parts of Arcadia passed by a wide margin and the city of Santa Fe was born. Santa Fe has since grown to include all of Arcadia and parts of Algoa, and ironically is now twice the size of Hitchcock. On February 14, 1981, the Ku Klux Klan hosted a fish fry on a private farm in ...
Alta Loma, Texas (Spanish: alta—high, loma—ground), [1] located in southwestern Galveston County, was an unincorporated area which became a part of the city of Santa Fe in 1978. [ 2 ] Notable people
Arcadia was established around 1889 near Hall's Bayou on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.It was named after Arcadia, Louisiana.Henry Runge plated the town in 1890 as Hall's Station on Stephen F. Austin's fourth land grant. [2]
This is a route-map template for the Santa Fe River, a waterway in New Mexico, the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe EMD F7A No. 315 and Southern Pacific 1892 Cooke 4-6-0 No. 314 at the Galveston Railroad Museum Interior of the Galveston Railroad Museum. The Galveston Railroad Museum is a railroad museum housed in the former Santa Fe Railroad station, at 25th and Strand in Galveston, Texas. The Museum is owned and operated by the ...
A Texas Ranger is mentioned as being a "Santa Fe expeditioner" in The Lone Ranch: A Tale of the Staked Plain (1860) by Capt. Thomas Mayne Reid, having "spent over twelve months in Mexican prisons." The expedition also forms the backdrop to Clarence E. Mulford 's 1922 novel Bring Me His Ears and to Larry McMurtry ’s 1995 novel Dead Man's Walk ...
The Santa Fe Terminal Complex is an 18-acre (73,000 m 2) complex of historic buildings in the Government District of downtown Dallas, Texas ().Constructed in 1924 as the headquarters for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway and the Southwest's largest merchandising center, three of the original four buildings remain today and have been renovated into various uses.