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Sandstorm, 1894 Main Street, 1894 Bank of America Building, Midland's tallest. Midland was established in June 1881 as Midway Station, on the Texas and Pacific Railway.Its name came from its central location between Fort Worth and El Paso, but because there were already other towns in Texas named Midway, the city changed its name to Midland in January 1884 when it was granted its first post ...
Former Midland County courthouse marked for razing Midland County Public Library in Midland. Midland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2020, the population was 169,983. [1] The county seat is Midland. [2] The county is so named for being halfway (midway) between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railway.
It is located at 1412 W. Ohio Ave. in Midland, Texas. The home was built in 1939 [ 2 ] and was purchased by the Bush family in 1951 for $9,000 (equivalent to $106,000 in 2023). They lived in the 1,400-square-foot (130 m 2 ) home until late 1955.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Midland County, Texas. There are five properties listed on the National Register in the county including two that are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks .
The Midland Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county – Midland – in West Texas, anchored by the city of Midland. As of the 2020 census , the MSA had a population of 169,983.
Land of the High Sky: History of Midland County of West Texas from 1849 to the Present. First National Bank of Midland. OCLC 731414735. Robert H. Ryan; Leonard G. Schifrin (1959), Midland: The Economic Future of a Texas Oil Center, Austin: University of Texas Bureau of Business Research, OCLC 1073160; Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien.
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In 1939, Harvey Sloan sold the field to the City of Midland for $14,500. As war clouds gathered over Europe in the late 1930s, Midland businessmen could foresee the possibility of a military base in West Texas and in 1940 they started promoting the airfield for use as a training base to the military establishment in Washington.