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It is an $8.8 million facility built in 1982 and is home to the Texas State University Bobcats men's basketball team, women's basketball team and women's volleyball team. The arena was previously known as Strahan Coliseum , but changed its name to the University Events Center as part of a late 2018 expansion.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department acquired the house and grounds by purchase in 1976 from the Seguin Conservation Society, which by agreement had preserved the house until the state agency could get funds for the restoration in its budget. Sebastopol was again opened to the public in September 1989.
The Levi Jordan Plantation is a historical site and building, located on Farm to Market Road 521, 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of the city of Brazoria, in the U.S. state of Texas. Founded as a forced-labor farm worked by enslaved Black people, it was one of the largest sugar and cotton producing plantations in Texas during the mid-19th century ...
The Colosseum (/ ˌ k ɒ l ə ˈ s iː ə m / KOL-ə-SEE-əm; Italian: Colosseo [kolosˈsɛːo], ultimately from Ancient Greek word "kolossos" meaning a large statue or giant) is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum.
The Yazoo Democrat, March 18, 1846) C. R. Bricken sold slave insurance, and listed a number of notable slave traders (including Seth Woodroof, Robert Lumpkin, Silas Omohundro, Hector Davis, Solomon Davis, and R. H. Dickinson) as references to whom "losses had been paid" (Richmond Enquirer, November 6, 1855) Macklevane, South Carolina [374]
A Texas exhibit honors the life and work of Silvia Hector Webber, who became known as the "Harriet Tubman of Texas" for helping enslaved people flee the States.
The monument's director told Discovery, "The 50,000 spectators had a ticket that said which numbered gate arch they were supposed to enter.Inside the arena, there were other numbers to help people ...
Jeff and Hanna Hill, the former slaves receiving the land, were released from chattel slavery when the Emancipation Proclamation was read out in Galveston on June 19, 1865. [1] The community's name alludes to the Biblical story of the Exodus of Jews from Egypt where they had been slaves. The Little Egypt Baptist Church was built in 1870.