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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 ...
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.
Sale of Dunkirk: Estonia, Livonia, Ingria, and Southeast Finland (Kexholmslän and part of Karelian Isthmus) [4] [5] Russia Sweden: 2,000,000 silver Swedish riksdaler: 1721 ~100,000 km² ~2,000 Riksdaler/km² Treaty of Nystad: Saint Croix [6] [7] Denmark–Norway France: 750,000 livres 1733 210 km² 3571 livres/km² Louisiana [8] United States ...
Land grant railroads facilitated the integration of the Southwest into the national economy. After the Civil War the cattle industry expanded rapidly in Texas, but it lacked rail connections to the main packinghouses in Chicago. The solution of a cattle drive across unoccupied federal land north to the railheads in Kansas.
In 2009 the 43,000 square feet (4,000 m 2) Two Camp Building and its surrounding land became the Houston Museum of Natural Science Sugar Land. The subdivision donated the building and land to the City of Sugar Land, and the city leases the building to the museum. The museum spent $3 million to help renovate the building. [2]
The Yazoo land fraud is often conflated with the Pine Barrens speculation, another land scandal that took place in east Georgia at about the same time. In this case, the state's high-ranking officials were making multiple gifts of land grants for the same parcels, resulting in the issuance of grants totaling much more land than was available in ...
The unit, on a 20,518 acres (8,303 ha) plot of land, is co-located with Beto, Gurney, Michael, and Powledge units. [2] With a capacity of 4,139 inmates, Coffield is the TDCJ's largest prison. [3] Coffield opened in June 1965. [2] In 2011 the Stiles Unit metal products plant closed. Its operations were consolidated with those of Coffield and ...
The Louisiana Purchase was negotiated between France and the United States, without consulting the various Indian tribes who lived on the land and who had not ceded the land to any colonial power. The four decades following the Louisiana Purchase was an era of court decisions removing many tribes from their lands east of the Mississippi for ...