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Jackson Ranch Church 35, 1982, Frances W. Isbell

Hidalgo County Historical Collection

From the Hidalgo County Historical Commission Collection, Series I, Historical Markers I, 1964-2013, consists of applications and research pertaining to historical markers and historical cemeteries.

Jackson Ranch Church 35, 1982, Container: 79, Box: 1, Folder: 36. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus.

https://archives.lib.utrgv.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/78145

Eli Jackson Cemetery Pharr, Texas, 1973-2009, Frances W. Isbell

Hidalgo County Historical Collection

From Hidalgo County Historical Commission Collection, Series IV, Historical Research, 1969-2013, consists of research for historical marker applications.

"News Release, Tourist Edition", Eli Jackson Cemetery Pharr, Texas, 1973-2009, Container: 79, Box: 11, Folder: 2. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus. https://archives.lib.utrgv.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/78521

Professional Baseball In The Lower Rio Grande Valley Of South Texas, 1949-1961, Mark Lynn Paschall

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Professional minor league baseball has been played in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas since 1910. Early leagues had trouble gaining a foothold in this region during the years prior to the Second World War primarily because all games were played in the intense heat of the South Texas summers.

With the installation of arc-lights at many of the local ball parks, following the post World War II era, to allow teams to play their games in the cooler hours of the evening, area entrepreneurs tried once again to bring the National Pastime to the Valley. Unable to …

The Mexicans' And Mexican-Americans' Contribution To The Development Of The Lower Rio Grande Valley Of Texas And Its Citrus Industry, Camilo A. Martinez Jr.

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The little-discussed Mexican and Mexican-American contribution to the development of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas into the great citrus producing area that it is today is exposed in general terms in this thesis. Due credit has been given to the Burgos, Tamaulipas, residents who came to the Valley during and after the Mexican Revolution in search of stability and better wages. In spite of the abuses they suffered, some of them decided to stay. Their children (now Mexican-Americans), are still contributing to the citrus industry today, although not in the strenuous way their parents did.

The Valley owes …

A Countryside Remembrance, Carl C. Wright

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

Families in the South Central Texas community known as Adalia, where I grew up before and after the 192os, raised cotton for a livelihood. And with few exceptions they dreamed day when they might escape a hard prairie life in brand Failure to practice crop rotation and other scientific farming drained the soil's fertility. Growing poorer with disheartened tenant farmers in secondhand cars abandoned the country for town or city. Landowners, too, moved away and rented their farms to destitute peasants from Mexico. Before the Great Depression, Adalia's school, once the neighborhood center, disappeared through consolidation. Johnson grass and broomweed …

Pau Catalog 1982-1983, Pan American University

UTPA Archives - Course Catalogs

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