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The sweet onion was adopted as Texas' official state onion in 1997. The Walla Walla sweet onion is named for Walla Walla County, Washington , where it is grown. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Its development began around 1900 when Peter Pieri , a French soldier who settled in the area, brought sweet onion seed from the island of Corsica with him to the Walla ...
Highway names; Interstates: Interstate X (I-X) Interstate Highway X (IH-X) US Highways: U.S. Highway X (US X) Loops: Loop X: Spurs: Spur X: Recreational: Recreational Road X (R X)
It runs from US 90 near Comstock northward and westward to an intersection with Langtry Road and Pandale Road near Pandale. RM 1024 was designated on November 23, 1948, as Farm to Market Road 1024 (FM 1024), running from US 90 near Comstock to a point northwestward at a distance of 7.9 miles (12.7 km). On July 15, 1949, FM 1024 was extended ...
Leonard M. Pike (February 1, 1940 – January 12, 2019) was an American agricultural scientist who established the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center at Texas A&M University in 1992 and created the 1015 sweet onion and the BetaSweet maroon carrot.
Farm to Market Road 432 (FM 432) is located in Wilbarger County, near the Oklahoma state line. The 7.6-mile-long (12.2 km) road travels from an interchange with US 287 in the community of Tolbert north to FM 91 south of Odell. Near the road's midpoint, it intersects FM 924. [75]
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A Texas Historical Commission plaque notes the event on The Square. [10] As the town became a trade center, agriculture kept pace. Farmersville in the 1930s was known as the "Onion Capital of North Texas", annually shipping over 1,000 carloads of onion. Along with some small industry, cantaloupe, cattle, corn, cotton, and maize crops remained ...
A vineyard in the Texas Hill Country AVA near Johnson City. Texas has a long history of wine production. The sunny and dry climate of the major winemaking regions in the state have drawn comparison to Portuguese wines , in addition to other regions in Europe like Spain, France, and Italy. [ 13 ]