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  2. Faulk and Gauntt Building - Wikipedia

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    The Faulk and Gauntt Building, at 217 N. Prairieville St. in Athens, Texas, was built in 1896. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] It is also a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. [citation needed] It was deemed significant as "an excellent example of late Victorian commercial architecture.

  3. Spar (retailer) - Wikipedia

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    SPAR, originally "DESPAR", styled as "DE SPAR" [2] (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈspɑr]), is a Dutch multinational franchise that provides branding, supplies and support services for independently owned and operated food retail stores. [3] It was founded in the Netherlands in 1932, [4] by Adriaan van Well.

  4. Athens, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Athens is a city and the county seat of Henderson County, [6] Texas, in the United States. As of the 2020 census , the city population was 12,857. [ 7 ] The city has called itself the " Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World."

  5. Bridges history column: How hotel magnate Conrad Hilton began ...

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    Hilton started buying more hotels. By 1924, he built a new hotel in Dallas, the fourteen-story Dallas Hilton, which he completed for more than $1.3 million (or $23.3 million in 2024 dollars).

  6. Athens of Texas - Wikipedia

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    View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; ... The Athens of Texas is a nickname that has been coined to describe several ...

  7. List of Texas State Historic Sites - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 26 September 2024, at 20:38 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. List of the oldest buildings in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Built by James Walker one of the "Old Three Hundred" whose sons John and James Jr. fought in the Texas Revolution. One of the oldest log cabins left standing in Texas. Magee-Love Log House: near Goodrich: 1828 Cartwright-McCrary House: west of Clodine: 1830 Home of Republic of Texas legislator Jesse H. Cartwright. Casa Ortiz: Laredo: 1830

  9. City of the Violet Crown - Wikipedia

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    According to the History Center in Austin, Texas, the phrase first appeared in The Austin Daily Statesman (now The Austin American-Statesman) on May 5, 1890. [2]It was long believed to have originated in O. Henry's story "Tictocq: The Great French Detective, In Austin", published in his collection of short stories The Rolling Stone published October 27, 1894.