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Owing to its original history as part of Frisco, [citation needed] The Colony is located inside the community college district of Collin College, [63] unlike most other places in Denton County. However, since residents of The Colony do not pay taxes to said district they must pay out-of-county tuition rates to attend the college. [citation needed]
In 1900, his efforts convinced a group of Galveston investors to establish a factory for the Texas Portland Cement & Lime Company on colony land adjacent to the Texas and Pacific Railroad line. The industrial landscape that would develop has had a significant impact on surrounding West Dallas throughout the 20th century. [18]
Peters Colony [1] (Peters' Colony) is a name applied to four empresario land grant contracts first by the Republic of Texas and then the State of Texas for settlement in North Texas. The contracts were signed by groups of American and English investors originally headed by William Smalling Peters. [ 2 ]
[13] It has plans to build a new high school in Colony Ridge. [16] As of 2023 Cleveland High School is the sole comprehensive public high school of Cleveland ISD. There is a charter K-8 school, International Leadership of Texas BG Ramirez School. In 2023, the school and one other charter school in Colony Ridge had a combined enrollment of 2,300 ...
Proximity calculated a 28.56% increase in student population from 2000 to 2006; LISD was declared the 17th largest school district in the State of Texas in 2008. [4] To help maintain this growth, in May 2008, voters approved a $697 million bond package. In 2010, the school district was rated "Recognized" by the Texas Education Agency. [5]
The DeWitt Colony (c. 1820s through the 1840s) was a settlement in Mexico (now Texas) founded by Green DeWitt. From lands belonging to that colony, the present Texas counties of DeWitt, Guadalupe and Lavaca were created. The hub of the colony was primarily located, however, in what is now Gonzales County. The first battle of the Texas ...
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Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...