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St. Mary's Female Seminary Junior College, St. Mary's County, in St. Mary's City (converted legally to coeducational in 1949, but in reality was still mostly female, then mostly a women's college); name changed in 1949 to St. Mary's Seminary (dropping the word "female" from the name - not to be confused with a similarly named Roman Catholic ...
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston.While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States.
The mall originally had just two anchors, Grants and Penn Traffic, and approximately 30 smaller stores. Its first expansion in 1970 included the addition of a Sears store, which was relocated from downtown State College, and over a dozen other smaller stores. [2] The new Sears included 45 merchandise departments and a 10-bay automotive center.
The store took on the Joske's name in 1979. In 1985 Allied Stores consolidated Joske's three Texas divisions, and the top three floors of the building were converted to corporate offices. The store connected its retail concourse to the expanding Dallas Pedestrian Network during a renovation of the basement, first and second floors in 1986. [8]
In the early 1980s, the demand for shopping opportunities and other businesses was growing with the populations of the side-by-side cities of Bryan and College Station. The city and developer CBL & Associates Properties began making plans for the opening of a large regional mall in the area, with the first choice of location being in Bryan near the intersection of Earl Rudder Freeway (Texas ...
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Peebles was founded in 1891 by William Smith Peebles, who opened his first store in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Peebles mainly concentrated on small towns that didn’t have department stores, thus avoiding bigger cities and higher rents. In 1981 the company acquired The Collins Company, a line of mid-priced, comparable stores.
It was the fifth-oldest women's college in the U.S. when it announced its closure in 2021. [1] 1842: Valley Union Seminary (now Hollins University) is the oldest chartered women's college in Virginia. 1844: Saint Mary's College (Indiana) was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. It was the first women's college in the Great Lakes region. It ...