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Stephen served as Texas Senator for the Republic of Texas in the 4th Congress at Austin from November 11, 1839, to February 5, 1840. [16] 5th Congress of The Republic of Texas On 02 Nov 1840 Stephen, who represented the District of Jasper and Jefferson, was elected a Republic of Texas Senator to the 5th Congress. Stephen served as Texas Senator ...
The Bowery began to rival Fifth Avenue as an address. [3] When Lafayette Street was opened parallel to the Bowery in the 1820s, the Bowery Theatre was founded by rich families on the site of the Red Bull Tavern, which had been purchased by Andrew Morris and John Jacob Astor; it opened in 1826 and was the largest auditorium in North America at ...
The Atlantic Guards were a 19th-century American street gang active in New York City from the 1840s to the 1860s. It was one of the original, and among the most important gangs of the early days of the Bowery, along with the Bowery Boys, American Guards, O'Connell Guards, and the True Blue Americans.
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott introduced his fellow governor from Tennessee this week at a border press conference, his words made reference to a bedrock piece of Lone State lore.
Reception for Charley Skedaddle was positive, [4] [5] with the book receiving the 1988 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.. The book is utilized in many classrooms, [6] with teachers using it to help inform students about the American Civil War.
Hammacher Schlemmer first began as a hardware store at 221 The Bowery, where it remained from 1848 to 1859.It later moved to 209 The Bowery, remaining from 1859 to 1904. The yellow fever plague of 1822, ascribed to impure water, desolated lower Manhattan and caused business and terrified inhabitants to move out of town to Greenwich Villag
Bowery, Third Avenue and both sides of Cooper Square were two-way streets, and the area was part of a city-approved through-truck route. [3] The New York City Department of Transportation announced plans in 2009 to "normalize" traffic, increase the size of the park in the middle of the square, and create a new community park in the area. [ 4 ]
Mary Austin Holley (1784–1846) was an American historical writer best known as the author of the first known English-language history of Texas, Texas (1833), expanded in 1836 into History of Texas. [1] She was a cousin of Stephen F. Austin, who arranged for Holley to receive a land grant on Galveston Bay.