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Eastland is located north of the center of Eastland County 96 miles (154 km) west-southwest of Fort Worth and 55 miles (89 km) east of Abilene.The city is accessed by Interstate 20 between exits 340 to the south and 343 to the east.
The county seat is Eastland. [2] The county was founded in 1858 and later organized in 1873. [3] It is named for William Mosby Eastland, a soldier during the Texas Revolution and the only officer to die as a result of the "Black Bean executions" of the Mier Expedition. Two Eastland County communities, Cisco and Ranger, have junior colleges.
Ol' Rip in his coffin in Eastland County Courthouse. Ol' Rip the Horned Toad (died January 19, 1929) was a Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum), commonly referred to as a "horned toad" or "horny toad", which supposedly survived a 31-year hibernation as an entombed animal following its exhumation from a cornerstone in Eastland, Texas, on February 18, 1928.
Location of Eastland County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Eastland County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Eastland County, Texas. One district and one individual property are listed on the national ...
Meanwhile, other states, like Texas, support a large horse-raising industry, shipping horses to Canada or Mexico to get slaughtered. Although surrounded by taboo in the U.S., horse meat is readily ...
The brothers are sons of Myrtle and Gwyn Voy Wilks (went by his middle name) of Cisco in Eastland County, east of Abilene, Texas.When the brothers were born, their father worked as a bricklayer and the family was destitute; the brothers once slept in a goat shed.
The violence in Nuevo Laredo, just south of Texas, followed the arrest of an alleged local cartel leader known as "El Ricky." Gunfights disrupt flights in Mexico border city, trigger U.S. warning ...
In 1948, he married the former Francis Annette Grubbs and, at the age of 21, acquired his first car dealership, a Dodge-Plymouth agency in Comanche.After opening his second dealership in 1953 for Oldsmobile-Cadillac in Eastland, he went on to establish a number of other automobile dealerships in Texas selling such makes as Volkswagen, Hillman, Renault, Triumph, Jaguar, Porsche, and BMW.