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History of Texas; Timeline; ... By 1900, the Dallas population reached 38,000 as banking and insurance became major activities in the increasingly white-collar city ...
On February 11, 1858, the Seventh Texas Legislature approved O.B. 102, an act to establish the University of Texas, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds toward construction of the state's first publicly funded university [15] (the $100,000 was an allocation from the $10 million the state received pursuant to the Compromise of 1850 ...
3.1 1900s–1940s. 3.2 1950s–1990s. ... The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San ... Texas; Timelines of other cities in the South Texas area ...
1842 – Texas seat of government relocated from Austin to Houston. [1] 1845 – Austin becomes part of the new U.S. state of Texas. [2] 1846 – Texas seat of government relocated back to Austin from Houston. [1] 1850 – Population: 3,841. [4] 1854 – Swenson Building and Ziller Building constructed. [5] 1855 Texas State Capitol built. [2]
The find was unprecedented in its size (worldwide) and ushered in an age of rapid regional development and industrialization that has few parallels in U.S. history. Texas quickly became one of the leading oil-producing states in the U.S., along with Oklahoma and California; soon the nation overtook the Russian Empire as the top producer of ...
1900s - Oil is discovered in Texas, from which a new industry will start. 1900. Population: 44,633. [15] Major hurricane strikes nearby Galveston, leading to development shifting north to Houston; 1902 - President Theodore Roosevelt approves a one-million dollar fund for the construction of the Houston Ship Channel.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Beaumont, ... 1900 – Population: 9,427. [6] ... Portal to Texas History. Denton: University of North Texas ...
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