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The Houchen Settlement House was founded in 1912 in Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas. El Paso was the chosen site to place a settlement house for Mexican immigrants because of its border location and risks linked with it. [clarify] Poverty, education and high infant mortality were concerns Houchen staff had to contend with on a daily basis ...
Hull House, Chicago. Settlement and community houses in the United States were a vital part of the settlement movement, a progressive social movement that began in the mid-19th century in London with the intention of improving the quality of life in poor urban areas through education initiatives, food and shelter provisions, and assimilation and naturalization assistance.
Maurice Sullivan, the design architect for the new building, examined settlement houses in the eastern United States before presenting a plan to the foundation. The Houston Settlement Association moved its administrative offices into Ripley House, while still maintaining the nearby Rusk Settlement House.
Map of the Lake Creek Settlement (1830s -1840s) in Texas. The Lake Creek Settlement (ca. 1830s through the 1840s) was a settlement in Stephen F. Austin's Second Colony, located in Mexican Texas, and later the Republic of Texas after it gained independence in 1836. The Lake Creek Settlement was located between the West Fork of the San Jacinto ...
The department of Texas, which included the eastern settlements, expected to export 2,000 bales of cotton and 5,000 head of cattle. [26] The abolition of slavery created tensions between the Mexican government and slave-holding settlers from the United States. These tensions came to a head in the Anahuac Disturbances.
Approval for settlement contracts for Texas was the responsibility of the state government in Saltillo. They were soon besieged by foreign speculators wanting to bring colonists into the state. [8] Coahuila y Tejas implemented the federal law in 1825. [9] At this time, about 3500 people lived in Texas, mostly congregated at San Antonio and La ...
El Orcoquisac Archeological District is a registered U.S. historic site located near Galveston Bay in present-day Wallisville, Texas.The site preserves an important Spanish presidio and trading center as well as an important settlement for the Akokisa and Bidai tribes that once inhabited the area.
South End House; South Park Settlement; John Stewart Settlement House; W. Westminster House Club House; Whittier House (Jersey City, New Jersey)