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Lennar dates back to F&R Builders, a company founded in 1954 by Gene Fisher and real estate developer Arnold P. Rosen. In 1956, Leonard Miller, who later became the namesake of the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, a 23-year-old entrepreneur that owned 42 lots in Miami-Dade County, Florida, invested $10,000 and partnered with the company.
In September, 2009, the City of San Antonio transferred 3,000 acres (12 km 2) of land to the TPWD for inclusion in the Natural Area, specifically to support long-term protection of the Edwards Aquifer, and thereby increasing the total acreage within the reserve from 8,783 acres (35.54 km 2) to 11,783 acres (47.68 km 2).
San Antonio Valley Road and Del Puerto Canyon Road are legislatively part of California State Route 130 but have not been adopted by CalTrans. The area includes the San Antonio Valley Ecological Reserve, a 3,282-acre nature preserve created by a Nature Conservancy purchase of land from local rancher, Keith Hurner, and known for its herd of tule ...
[41] [42] The remains of the Gold Ridge Diggings (a.k.a. Agamemnon mine) (1897-ca. 1904) are found near the headwaters of San Antonio Canyon, in the canyon below the Ski Hut. [43] The miners were kept supplied by sheep hunter turned merchant Fred Dell, who built Dell's Camp near the present Mt. Baldy Village, and by mule driver Fletcher Manker ...
Fray Antonio de Olivares also built the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, on the west side of the San Antonio River, approximately 1 mile from the mission. [4] It was designed to protect the system of missions and civilian settlements in central Texas and to ensure Spanish claims in the region against possible encroachment from other European powers.
Hondo is located approximately 40 miles (64 km) west of Downtown San Antonio. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.6 square miles (25 km 2), of which, 9.6 square miles (25 km 2) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) of it (0.21%) is covered with water.
San Antonio Canyon (Spanish: Cañón de San Antonio) is a submarine canyon located offshore San Antonio, Valparaíso Region, Chile. [1] The canyon crosses almost the whole continental shelf. [1] It has a slope of 2° from its upper parts near the coast to 80 km offshore, then slope increases to a mean of 6.3°. [2]
After starting a ranching operation in eastern Colorado, he returned to the Palo Duro Canyon area (site of a major operation he led against the Kiowa and Comanche), and established a small ranch in 1874. He then entered into a partnership with John Adair, a wealthy landowner from Co. Laois in Ireland, who funded the ranch's expansion while ...