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Taylor-Stevenson Ranch is an historic 640-acre working ranch located near Reliant Stadium on Almeda Rd. in Houston, TX. [1] The ranch was officially designated in the Congressional Record as a " Texas Century Ranch " which recognizes ownership by the same family for over a century. [ 2 ]
Farm to Market Road 1484 (FM 1484) is located in Montgomery County, it starts at an intersection with Loop 336 in northern Conroe and travels roughly north-northeast, passing by Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport and various rural neighborhoods before turning east for a few miles and finally taking a sharp southward turn towards Highway 105 ...
Farm to Market Road 2300 (FM 2300) is located in Carson and Gray counties. The southern terminus of FM 2300 is at Business I-40 in Groom in Carson County. [2] The highway travels north along Eastern Avenue and has a junction with I-40 before leaving the town. FM 2300 continues north before turning east at County Road 168. [3]
The first farm-to-market road in Texas was completed in January 1937 during the Great Depression. It connected Mount Enterprise and the former community of Shiloh in Rusk County. The route was 5.8 miles (9.3 km) long and was constructed at a cost of $48,015.12 (equivalent to $801,000 in 2023 [4]). This route is now part of Texas State Highway 315.
RM 336 was designated as Farm to Market Road 336 (FM 336) on June 11, 1945, from US 83, 0.8 miles (1.3 km) north of Leakey, north 7.4 miles (11.9 km) up the West Frio River. On January 29, 1953 (connecting section designated December 17, 1952), the road was extended north to SH 41, replacing FM 1434 , and the designation was changed to RM 336.
The largest hacienda/ranch in the world, prior to the Mexican Revolution of 1910, was the Terrazas family estate headed by Don Luis Terrazas in the state of Chihuahua, with more than 8 million acres in size (some sources say 15 million acres [99]) stretching for more than 160 miles north to south and 200 miles east to west. At its height in the ...
In 1869, the ranch registered its "Running W" brand, which remains the King Ranch's official mark today. [10] At the time, the ranch grazed cattle, horses, sheep and goats. By the mid-1870s, though, the ranch's hallmark stock had become the hardy Texas Longhorn. The ranch also boasted several Brahman bulls, as well as Beef Shorthorns and Herefords.