Homestead National Monument By the 1850's,huge land acquisitions had filled out the continental United States. the country's sheer vastness strengthened the conviction that the public domain rightfully belonged to the people. The grassy interior...
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...
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...
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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...
Charlie Goodnight moved into the Keechi Valley with his family in 1857 and, like the other ranchers, admired and depended on the wisdom of the experienced pioneer, Oliver Loving. Loving was among a few others, including Reynolds and Matthews, who...
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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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