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"A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of families] except Africans and their descendants and Indians living in Texas ...
Location of Bell County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bell County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bell County, Texas. There are four districts, 66 individual properties, and one former property ...
Cowboys at the XIT Ranch in 1891. The XIT Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle which operated from 1885 to 1912. Comprising over 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km 2) of land, it ran for 200 miles (300 km) along the border with New Mexico, varying in width from 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 km).
Farm to Market Road 1250 (FM 1250) is located in Medina County in the town of Hondo and is known locally as 30th Street. FM 1250 begins at an intersection with US 90 in the western part of the town. The highway travels in an eastern direction until an intersection with Avenue U. East of Avenue U, FM 1250 travels through a residential area ...
1833 map of Coahuila and Texas; Austin's Colony is the large pink area in the southeast. The "Old Three Hundred" were 297 grantees who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin in Mexican Texas. Each grantee was head of a household, or, in some cases, a partnership of unmarried men.
Hundreds of items insid the Masonic Temple, 1250 Middle-Bellville Road will be sold at 10 a.m. Jan. 6 during a public auction. The Mason groups are moving out, building to be sold, demolished.
Vermeer invents the first machine to dig, transport and replace large trees in the 1960s. The first larger round hay baler was invented by Gary Vermeer in 1971. Allis Chalmers first introduced the small round rotobaler in 1947. Vermeer begins building large trenchers to lay underground pipelines in the 1980s.
General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule. Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha ...