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Italy (/ ˈ ɪ t l i / IT-lee, unlike the country) is a town in Ellis County, Texas, United States. Its population was 1,926 in 2020 . [ 4 ] The community was named after Italy by a settler who had visited the European country.
This map is the earliest recorded document of Texas history. ... In 1799, Spain gave Louisiana back to France in exchange for the promise of a throne in central Italy ...
[78] [79] From 1880 to 1914, 13 million Italians migrated out of Italy, [80] making Italy the scene of one of the largest voluntary emigrations in recorded world history. [81] During this period of mass migration, 4 million Italians arrived in the United States, 3 million of them between 1900 and 1914. [82]
The Italian Heritage and Culture Committee – NY, Inc. was founded in 1976, and has organized special events, concerts, exhibits and lectures celebrating Italian culture in New York City. Each year it focuses on a theme representative of the history and culture of Italy and Italian Americans.
Carlo, later described as the "original head of the Mafia in Texas," was born about 1876 in Corleone, Sicily, the same hometown as early New York Mafia boss Giuseppe Morello. Piranio's marriage to an eighteen-year-old woman, recently arrived from Italy, occurred in 1903. In 1904, a son, Angelo, was born to Carlo and Clementia Piranio.
Doughboys of the 131st Machine Gun Battalion, 36th Division, during target practice at Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Texas, 1918.. The 36th Division was originally constituted by the Militia Bureau in early 1917 as the 15th Division, made up of troops from Texas and Oklahoma. [5]
A caseworker from Texas Child Protective Services decided to remove all five children after a home visit Friday in the 300 block of Harris Street near Stafford Elementary School in Italy ...
The first railroad built in Texas is called the Harrisburg Railroad and opened for business in 1853. [21] In 1854, the Texas and Red River telegraph services were the first telegraph offices to open in Texas. [21] The Texas cotton industry in 1859 increased production by seven times compared to 1849, as 58,073 bales increased to 431,645 bales. [22]