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Map of the Lake Creek Settlement (1830s -1840s) in Texas. The Lake Creek Settlement (ca. 1830s through the 1840s) was a settlement in Stephen F. Austin's Second Colony, located in Mexican Texas, and later the Republic of Texas after it gained independence in 1836.
Peebles and Mary Ann Groce Peebles, his wife, contributed 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2) of the estate of Jared E. Groce, Jr., for the community. On June 29, 1858, the Houston and Texas Central Railway was extended to Hempstead, causing the community to become a distribution center between the Gulf Coast and the interior of Texas.
Sunnyside, the oldest African-American community in southern Houston, was first platted in 1912. [5] When the community opened in the 1910s, H. H. Holmes, the founder, gave the land the name Sunny Side. [6] By the 1940s area residents established a water district and a volunteer fire department. The City of Houston annexed Sunnyside in 1956. [5]
The city got its name as it was a lone settlement of white colonists amid several Native American villages in the Fort Worth area in the Texas Republic territory in the 1840s. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] On October 14, 2005, city leaders, citing hurdles in attracting businesses, [ 18 ] announced a plan to have local voters decide on a possible name change ...
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Texas, listed by county. This may include disincorporated communities, towns with no incorporated status, ghost towns, or census-designated places.
American ex-pat communities are growing. The American retirement dream is increasingly slipping away for many older workers hoping to hang up their hats. Savings are dwindling, Social Security isn ...
The Golf Club at Cinco Ranch, owned by ARCIS Golf, is an 167-acre (0.7 km 2) 18-hole, par-71 daily fee course, with numerous bunkers and water hazards.The Golf Academy at Cinco Ranch hosts junior golf instructional clinics throughout the year and in the summer.
Spring Branch is a district in west-northwest Harris County, Texas, United States, roughly bordered by Tanner Road and Hempstead Road to the north, Beltway 8 to the west, Interstate 10 to the south, and the 610 Loop to the east; it is almost entirely within the city of Houston. [4]