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The Foster plantation produced sugarcane and rice before the American Civil War. When the Foster community obtained a post office in 1882, the settlement was officially established. Foster had 60 residents, a steam gristmill and cotton gin, a physician, and semiweekly mail delivery in 1884. Three gristmills and daily postal delivery were ...
U.S. Route 259 (US 259) is a north–south spur of U.S. Route 59 that runs for 250 miles (400 km) through rural areas of northeastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma.The highway's southern terminus is near Nacogdoches, Texas, at an interchange with its parent route, US 59.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Farm to Market Road 359 (FM 359) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas. The highway begins at U.S. Route 90 Alternate (US 90 Alt.) near Richmond in Fort Bend County . FM 359 heads in a northwesterly direction through Pecan Grove and Fulshear to Interstate 10 at Brookshire in Waller County .
Buescher State Park is a state park located just north of Smithville, Texas. The park consists of 1,016.7 acres (411 ha) of public land donated to the state by Mr. Emil and Mrs. Elizabeth Buescher, as well as the City of Smithville.
The suspect, identified by police as 38-year-old Steven Shane Foster, was found at a residence in Midlothian, southeast of Mansfield, around 11 p.m. and taken into custody without incident.
Farm to Market Road 1092 (FM 1092) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas that is within both Fort Bend and Harris Counties. The highway starts from State Highway 6 (SH 6) in Missouri City and goes north to Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59 in southwest Houston. The divided highway is also known as Murphy Road along its entire length.
The Smithville Visitor Center, James H. Long Railroad Museum & Chamber of Commerce, located at 100 Main Street in Smithville, contains exhibits and relics from Smithville's railroad history. The Smithville post office contains an oil on canvas mural, The Law, Texas Rangers , painted in 1939 by Minette Teichmueller .