born in Texas about 1891 or ’92 in but living in Ashford. I surmise this is the Jess in question. If so he stayed in Ashford and married a woman named Jetty, or Jennie; I haven’t been able to find a maiden name, but they had a son named George McCray who would have been born...
Texas: Ashton Villa, Galveston One of the earliest brick structures in Texas, Ashton Villa wasbuilt by hardware magnateJames Moreau Brown in 1859. Christened Ashton Villa by his wife, Rebecca Ashton Brown, the Victorian Italianate mansion survived the infamous Galveston Hurricane of 1900 with minim...
getty images 13/55 marfa, texas within the last decade, artists and designers began to flock to this wide-open landscape three hours south of el paso, opening galleries, hotels, and shops, but not without compromising the swathes of nature and iconic buildings like the italianate-style ...
The Old West doesn’t feel quite so old in Abilene, Kansas. People come from all over the world to Abilene to get a sense of the cow town where a handful of rough-and-tumble characters used to drive thousands of cattle coming up from Texas. The work was dangerous but profitable: If ...
Living Near People You Grew Up With It's comforting to live near people you knew when you were younger. Especially so the older we get. Our Pretty Downtown Areas Photo source: Tara Holley Our Pretty Downtown Areas One of Stori Hadden Nix's favorite things about East Texas are our downto...
It stretches from just west of New Orleans to the Texas border along the Gulf of Mexico coast, and about 100 miles inland to Marksville.This includes the following 22 parishes: Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette...
Sheryl Swoopes,the woman who long defined the WNBA, was born and raised in Brownfield, Texas. Before she was known as the Michael Jordan of women's basketball, Swoopes led the Brownfield High Lady Cubs to the 1988 3A state title. In 2019 she returned to where it all started to attend...
not to mention theKaty Trail—the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad converted into the nation's largest rails-to-trails project, which celebrates its25th anniversarythis year. 2015 also sees the 40th anniversary of theMissouri River Festival of the Arts, held August 27-29 at Thespian Hall, ...
” The state is commemorating his many lifetime achievements with everything from a self-guideddriving tourto aJuneteenth celebration, marking the abolition of slavery in Texas, in Easton, just 12 miles south from where Douglass was born. There’s signage marking thespotalong Maryland Route 328...
not to mention theKaty Trail—the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad converted into the nation's largest rails-to-trails project, which celebrates its25th anniversarythis year. 2015 also sees the 40th anniversary of theMissouri River Festival of the Arts, held August 27-29 at Thespian Hall, ...