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Shadyside subdivision marker at Main at Remington. Shadyside is a private, walled subdivision of 16 houses in Houston, Texas.In 2012 Terrence McCoy of the Houston Press said that Shadyside has a "sense of exclusivity, or as Heritage Texas Properties puts it, 'mystique,'" which caused many prominent figures from Houston to settle in Shadyside and continue doing so for a period of almost 100 years.
Cullinan bought the land that would become the Shadyside subdivision in 1916, [7] purchased from the estate of George H. Hermann. Cullinan said that his intention was to create a subdivision so that his business acquaintances and friends could live near him. In 1920, Cullinan put the 16-lot subdivision on the market: it sold out within six ...
The land had been purchased from the local American Legion and launched with Kresge’s, W.T. Grant, National Supermarkets, Kroger food stores and Shoppers Fair anchoring the mile-long strip mall. In 1968, the shopping center went by the shorter Town & Country Shopping Center moniker adding the Town & Country Cinema.
Disaster creeps closer to her home. 'My house is unsellable': This Pennsylvania woman bought cheap land from the state for $15,000 — but didn't know a previous owner sold it due to a landslide ...
Thomas J. "T. J." Donoghue (1869–1945) was born in the Pennsylvania oilfields to a local refiner. When he was a young teenager, he sold newspapers and worked for Western Union. After eighteen years of employment at Standard Oil, he accepted a job from J. S. Cullinan in Texas. He was a colleague of James Autry at the Texas Company.
The area around Glen Mills was part of the original land grant given to William Penn in 1681. George Cheyney was the first settler here, for which the nearby town of Cheyney is named. Later, this land was sold and divided. The name Glen Mills is taken from two paper mills built by the Willcox family, one in 1835 and the second in 1846.
The 94.4-carat pear-shaped Cullinan III and the 63.6-carat square-cut Cullinan IV were originally set into Queen Mary's coronation crown (which also held the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond).
The Cuillin now consists of two estates divided by Glen Sligachan. [32] The hills on the west side of Glen Sligachan (the Black Cuillin) remained the property of Clan MacLeod despite the long history of conflict between them and Clan MacDonald. The earliest formal record of MacLeod ownership was in a land grant from the Crown in 1611. [33]