To Build Entire City on Gulf of Mexico

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Featured Link: Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 5 Sep 1912, p. 8
Media Type: Newspaper
Item Type: Articles
Notes: A New York syndicate has purchased 15,000 acres at the mouth of the Brazos river for the purpose of building a new city and port. Heading the project are Frank A. Vanderlip, James Stillman, Samuel McRoberts, John Williams & Sons of Richmond, John Hayes Hammond, F. Q. Brown, F. P. Swenson, and S. A. Swenson of New York. The Swensons own a large ranch at Spur, in west Texas
Date of Publication: 5 Sep 1912
Subject(s): City planning
Corporate Name(s): Mexico
Local identifier: Wilmette.News.308165
Language of Item: English
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