City Pedia Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of Texas state prisons - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Texas_state_prisons

    Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the location of the men's death row. Clemens Unit. Eastham Unit. Ellis Unit. W.J. Estelle Unit. Ferguson Unit. Thomas Goree Unit. Huntsville Unit – Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. Gib Lewis Unit.

  3. List of reported UFO sightings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings

    • NA, United States; near Dayton, Texas: Betty Cash and Victoria Landrum unsuccessfully sued the United States government in 1981. The two women attributed various symptoms to a diamond-shaped UFO they claimed to have seen pursued by air force helicopters the previous year. The judge dismissed their case due to a lack of evidence. [161] [162]

  4. List of Texas state parks - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Texas_state_parks

    454.16 acres (183.79 ha) 1968. Fort Richardson State Park, Historic Site, and Lost Creek Reservoir State Trailway. Franklin Mountains State Park. El Paso. 24,247 acres (9,812 ha) 1987. Franklin Mountains State Park. Galveston Island State Park.

  5. Paris, Texas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Texas

    Website. paristexas.gov. Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, the population of the city was 24,171 in 2020.

  6. List of place names of French origin in the United States

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of...

    New Jersey and Jersey City (after the Bailliage de Jersey, the largest of the Anglo-Norman Channel Islands near the coast of northwest France) Audubon; Bayonne (according to tradition, from Bayonne, France) Belleplain; Belleville ("Beautiful town") Lavallette (named for Elie A. F. La Vallette, U.S. naval captain of French family origin)

  7. Sabine Pass, Port Arthur, Texas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Sabine_Pass,_Port_Arthur,_Texas

    Sabine Pass Battleground State Historic Site is an outdoor sculpture park that covers the history of the Sabine Pass Battleground during the Civil War. The park features an interpretive pavilion and walkway, a 14-foot statue and monument, ADA-accessible sidewalks and restrooms, covered picnic tables and grills, 4-lane boat ramps with ADA ...

  8. Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Forts_Jackson...

    The fall of New Orleans as a consequence of the battle may also have swayed European powers, primarily Great Britain and France, not to recognize the Confederacy diplomatically. Confederate agents abroad noted that they were generally received more coolly, if at all, after word of loss of the city reached London and Paris. [56]

  9. Franklin Mountains State Park - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Mountains_State_Park

    Franklin Mountains State Park is a state park in El Paso, Texas, United States. The park is named after the Franklin Mountains, a mountainous range that extends 23 mi (37 km) from El Paso to New Mexico. Its headquarters are located at an elevation of 5,426 feet (1,654 m) with the highest peak, North Franklin Mountain, reaching 7,192 feet (2,192 ...