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2. Old San Antonio City Cemeteries Historic District - Wikipedia

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   The Old San Antonio City Cemeteries Historic District, also known as the Eastside Cemetery Historic District, is a 103-acre complex collection of the oldest cemeteries in San Antonio, all established between 1853 and 1904. [2] The individual cemeteries in the district were once part of land acreage that the City of San Antonio parceled off and ...

3. Gerald Lyda - Wikipedia

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   The Lyda organization grew to be a major Texas general contractor, carrying out such projects as the Alamodome, the expansion of the University of Texas Memorial Stadium, the Hyatt Hill Country Resort Hotel, the San Antonio Convention Center, the Westin La Cantera Resort Hotel and the Fiesta Texas theme park, as well as hospitals, hotels, banks ...

4. King William Historic District - Wikipedia

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   The King William Historic District of San Antonio, Texas was listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bexar County, Texas on January 20, 1972. [1] The area was originally used as farm acreage by the Spanish priests of the Misión San Antonio de Valero, and eventually parceled off for the local indigenous peoples of the ...

5. List of Texas blues musicians - Wikipedia

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   Lavelle White – (born July 3, 1929, in Amite City, Louisiana), White recorded for Duke Records in the 1950s and early 1960s, before issuing a comeback album in 1994 on Antone's Records. [107] Buddy Whittington – (born December 28, 1956) Born in Fort Worth, Texas , he appeared on countless John Mayall shows and recordings for 15 years ...

6. List of people from San Antonio - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Callister Hales, mathematician ; born in San Antonio. Maria Hernandez Ferrier, former president of Texas A&M University–San Antonio; former advisor to the United States Secretary of Education on bilingual education. William Esco Moerner, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. Marie Charlotte Schaefer, physician.

7. History of San Antonio - Wikipedia

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   The City of San Antonio is one of the oldest Spanish settlements in Texas and was, for decades, its largest city. Before Spanish colonization, the site was occupied for thousands of years by varying cultures of indigenous peoples. The historic Payaya Indians were likely those who encountered the first Europeans.