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Icaria

Commune established by French immigrants southeast of present day Denton. Despite a promising beginning, weather, disease and an ill-conceived organization forced abandonment within a season. A future prominent citizen of early Fort Worth, Adolphe...

Isom Hicks

During the summer of 1858, Joseph Hicks lived near Newburg in the southern part of Comanche County. His slave, Isom Hicks, was a carpenter and was building a house for Capt. T. C. Frost in Comanche. Each Saturday the African would return home and...

Granbury/Comanche Peak

Granbury Court House Our saga begins in 1847 by Charles Binard who opened a trading post along the Brazos River. Granbury was named for General Hiram Brinsom Granberry. Hood County was created by special act of the Texas legislature in 1866. Since...

Fort Lee

For at least three hundred years, the area of Virginia now called Fort Lee has been inhabited. The roads and the later railroads on which tobacco was transported to market became the avenue of mobilization and troop support during the American...

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