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Timeline Of Midland, Texas
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Midland, Texas, USA. 19th century * 1884 - Midland Post Office established. * 1885 - Midland County created. * 1886 - First Baptist Church founded. * 1888 - ''Midland Reporter'' newspaper begins publication. 20th century * 1906 - City of Midland incorporated. * 1909 - County jail built. * 1910 ** Midland Christian College established. ** Population: 2,192. * 1924 - Chamber of Commerce formed. * 1929 ** '' Reporter-Telegram'' newspaper begins publication. ** Yucca Theatre in business. * 1932 - Midland County Historical Museum founded. * 1935 - KRLH radio begins broadcasting. * 1940 - Population: 9,352. * 1946 - U.S. military Midland Army Air Force Base closes. * 1952 - Midland County Historical Society established. * 1953 - KMID-TV ( television) begins broadcasting. * 1958 - Midland County Library built. * 1960 - Population: 62,625. * 1961 - KDCD-TV ( television) begins broadcasting. * 1968 - U.S. Supreme Court dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States. A small part of Midland is in Martin County. At the 2020 census, Midland's population was 132,524. It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Midland County, the population of which grew 4.6% between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012, to 151,662, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The metropolitan area is part of the larger Midland–Odessa combined statistical area, which had a population of 340,391 in the 2020 census. People in Midland are called Midlanders. Located in the Permian Basin in West Texas, Midland is a major center for oil and natural gas production. Midland was founded as the midway point between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1881. The city has many connections to the Bush family; It was the onetime home of former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush and the hometown of former First L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Airpower Heritage Museum
The Henry B. Tippie National Aviation Education Center (NAEC) is an aviation museum operated by the American Airpower Heritage Museum (AAHM), an affiliate organization of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), headquartered at Dallas Executive Airport in Dallas, Texas, United States. History The museum opened in its first building in Mercedes, Texas, in 1965 as a location to house and display World War II artifacts as they began to be donated to the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), then known as the Confederate Air Force. In 1968, both the CAF and AAHM moved to Harlingen, Texas. In 1990, the AAHM became a separate non-profit organization, along with another legal entity, the American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, created to hold title to the organization's aircraft. In 1991, both the AAHM and CAF moved to Midland, Texas Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States. A small part of Midland is in Martin County. At the 2020 census, Midla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Public Library Of America
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. It officially launched on April 18, 2013, after two and a half years of development. Overview The DPLA is a discovery tool, or union catalog, for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. It was started by Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in 2010, with financial support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and has subsequently received funding from several foundations and government agencies, including the US National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It "aims to unify such disparate sources as the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, various academic collections, and presumably any other collection that would be meaningful to include. ... They ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancestry
An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). ''Ancestor'' is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited." Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor. In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal gene transfer. Some research suggests that the average person has twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. This might have been due to the past prevalence of polygynous relations and female hypergamy. Assuming that all of an individual's ancestors are otherwise unrelated to each other, that individual has 2''n'' ancestors in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Lubbock, Texas
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lubbock, Texas, USA. 19th century * 1876 - Lubbock County established; named after Thomas Saltus Lubbock. * 1890 - Lubbock settlement formed by merger of Old Lubbock and Monterey. * 1891 ** Lubbock designated seat of Lubbock County. ** ''Leader'' newspaper begins publication. ** Nicolett Hotel building moved to Lubbock from nearby North Town (approximate date). * 1900 - '' Lubbock Avalanche'' newspaper begins publication. 20th century * 1909 ** Railroad begins operating. ** City of Lubbock incorporated. ** Frank E. Wheelock becomes mayor. * 1910 - Population: 1,938. * 1913 - Chamber of Commerce formed. * 1914 ** South Plains Fair begins. ** St. Paul's-on-the-Plains Church established. * 1917 - Lubbock Sanitarium (hospital) and Mt. Gilead Baptist Church established. * 1920 - Population: 4,051. * 1924 - San Jose Catholic Church and Palace Theatre built. * 1925 ** Texas Technological College opens. ** ''The Daily Torea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of El Paso, Texas
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of El Paso, Texas. Prior to 20th century * 1598 The first Thanksgiving in North America celebrated by Spanish explorer Juan de Oñate and his expedition on April 30, 1598. * 1682 – Ysleta Mission established. * 1827 - Juan María Ponce de León is given a land grant for what is now downtown El Paso. * 1849 – U.S. military Fort Bliss established. * 1850 – El Paso County created, which originally extended north to what is now Garfield, New Mexico, and extending all the way to the Pecos River * 1859 - Anson Mills surveys and lays out a town on Ponce's Rancho and names it El Paso, the layout of Downtown El Paso still follows this original plan * 1873 – El Paso incorporated. * 1876 – ''Lone Star'' newspaper begins publication. * 1881 ** Southern Pacific Railroad begins operating. ** '' El Paso Times'' and ''El Paso Herald'' newspapers begin publication. * 1882 – Avenida Lerdo–Stanton Street Bridge and Montgomery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Amarillo, Texas
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Amarillo, Texas, USA. 19th century * 1889 - Town of Amarillo incorporated. * 1890 - Population: 482. * 1892 - W. W. Wetsel becomes mayor. * 1899 - City of Amarillo incorporated. * 1900 - Population: 1,442. 20th century * 1905 - Amarillo Livestock Auction begins. It will go on to become the world's largest seller of cattle by open bidding. * 1907 - Grand Opera House built. * 1909 ** ''Amarillo News'' begins publication. ** Amarillo National Bank established. * 1910 - Population: 9,957. * 1914 - Amarillo Police Department formed. * 1915 - ''Panhandle Weekly'' newspaper begins publication. * 1918 - "Natural gas discovered." * 1921 - "Oil discovered." * 1924 ** '' Amarillo Globe'' newspaper begins publication. ** Tri-State Fairgrounds open. * 1926 ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Amarillo established. ** '' Amarillo Globe-News'' newspaper in publication. ** Herring Hotel built. * 1929 ** Amarillo College established. ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Abilene, Texas
Abilene ( ) is a city in Taylor and Jones Counties in Texas, United States. Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census, making it the 27th-most populous city in the state of Texas. It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan statistical area, which had an estimated population of 169,893, as of 2016. It is the county seat of Taylor County. Dyess Air Force Base is located on the west side of the city. Abilene is located off Interstate 20, between exits 279 on its western edge and 292 on the east. It is west of Fort Worth. The city is looped by I-20 to the north, US 83/84 on the west, and Loop 322 to the east. A railroad divides the city down the center into north and south. The historic downtown area is on the north side of the railroad. History Established by cattlemen as a stock shipping point on the Texas and Pacific Railway in 1881, the city was named after Abilene, Kansas, the original endpoint for the Chisholm Trail. The T&P had bypassed the town of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
