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Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
In 1845, the annexation of Texas to the U.S. led to war with Mexico, and the following year, when the war ended, the Rio Grande officially became the international border and Laredo a part of Texas. Those who wanted to retain Mexican citizenship moved across the river and founded Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Laredo’s sister city.
Jan 19, 2024 · D ecades before Texas Highways became a public-facing travel magazine, it was known by the slightly less charming name Construction and Maintenance Bulletin, an internal publication for employees of the Texas Highway Department (now the Texas Department of Transportation). Founded in 1953, the bulletin covered highway design, construction, and ...
Savannah’s Meadow CELESTE Located about an hour northeast of Dallas, Savannah’s Meadow invites guests to experience a working farm sprinkled with pixie dust. Playful flourishes include a tree tunnel decorated with faces and an adorable fairy forest trail…. 5 min. Texas Highways Magazine | January/February 2024.
Feb 13, 2024 · Photo courtesy Elisabet Ney Museum. In 1892, Ney was commissioned to capture the likenesses of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin, heroes of the Texas Revolution, for the World’s Fair in Chicago. Both sculptures now reside in the South Foyer of the Texas State Capitol, along with marble versions in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall.
Jun 20, 2019 · Whataburger isn’t just a Texas thing — the distinctive A-frame restaurants dot the highways in Arizona, Alabama, Florida and a handful of other states, with sales of more than $2 billion annually.
Although Patricia de la Garza de León was the co-founder of Victoria, the town where I grew up, I only recently learned her name. I knew of her husband, Martín de León, the dashing empresario who, in 1824, brought 41 families to the Guadalupe River to build this town, back before there was a Texas.
