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De León's Colony was established in 1824 in the northern Coahuila y Tejas state of the First Mexican Republic, by empresario Martín De León. It was the only ethnically Mexican colony founded during the Mexican period (1824-1835) that is located within the present-day U.S. state of Texas .
Juan Ponce de León [a] (c. 1474 – July 1521 [6]) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Puerto Rico in 1508 and Florida in 1513.
The Alcazar Hotel is a historic building in the Cedar-Fairmount district of Cleveland Heights, Ohio.The hotel was built in 1923 in the Spanish-Moorish style, based on hotels such as the Alcazar and Ponce de Leon in St. Augustine, Florida. [3]
De Leon (/ d ɪ ˈ l iː ɒ n / dih LEE-on) is a city located in Comanche County in the U.S. state of Texas.Its population was 2,258 in the 2020 census. [4] It is commonly associated with being named after the Spanish explorer Ponce de León, but the town is actually named for its location on the Leon River (de León in Spanish), which flows directly north and east of the community, and drains ...
The Big Four Depot behind the Ohio State Limited making a stop in 1965.. In 1924, an average of 3,000 freight cars and 40 passenger and express trains passed through the depot each day. [2]
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Martín De León (1765–1833) was a rancher and wealthy Mexican empresario in Texas who was descended from Spanish aristocracy. He was the patriarch of one of the prominent founding families of early Texas.
De León or de León or De Leon is a Spanish origin surname, often toponymic, in which case it may possibly indicate an ultimate family origin in the Kingdom of León or the later Province of León. Geographical distribution