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La Linda International Bridge (also known as the Gerstaker Bridge, Hallie Stillwell Memorial Bridge, Big Bend Crossing Bridge, Puente La Linda, and Heath Crossing [2] [1] is an international bridge which crosses the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) on the United States–Mexico border in the Big Bend region of Texas.
It is popularly called the "Old Bridge" (Spanish: Puente Viejo) because its original incarnation, still standing, is the city's oldest international bridge. In 1999, Texas state Historical marker 11778 was placed at the site by the Texas Historical Commission and the Cameron County Historical Commission to recognize the bridge's historical ...
The plantation consisted of over 10,000 acres of sugar cane fields, a sugar mill, and a race track. [4] Through Southdown Plantation, the Minors were instrumental in introducing and sustaining the sugar industry in the area, and ensuring the survival of the crop by developing a variety of sugar cane that was resistant to mosaic disease. [8]
The bridge is also expected to carry SH 99 (Grand Parkway) when it is completed around Houston. [4] The bridge, named for Fred Hartman (1908–1991), the editor and publisher of the Baytown Sun from 1950 to 1974, is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Texas and one of only four such bridges in the state, the others being Veterans Memorial Bridge ...
Sam Houston Tollway Ship Channel Bridge (formerly known as the Jesse H. Jones Memorial Bridge) is a span in Harris County, Texas. It was acquired from the then– Texas Turnpike Authority (TTA) (now North Texas Tollway Authority) on May 5, 1994, and is now a part of the Harris County Toll Road Authority system.
The bridge is owned and operated by Cameron County. The bridge commenced operation on April 30, 1999. [3] The bridge unites the Matamoros–Brownsville Metropolitan Area, which has a population of 1,136,995, [4] making it the 4th largest metropolitan area on the Mexico-U.S. border. [5]
Weeks before the recent state takeover of the park, the group planted hundreds of crosses in a field there as a memorial to the people believed to have perished along the US-Mexico border in 2023.
Levi Jordan (1793–1873), a Georgia-born planter, traveled in 1848 to Brazoria County, Texas, bringing with him twelve enslaved Black people. [3] Previously, Jordan had owned adjoining plantations on the Louisiana-Arkansas border (Union County, Arkansas) with his son-in-law, James Campbell McNeill, [2] however he was not as successful as he wanted to be.