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Harlingen, Texas
Harlingen is a city in Cameron County in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, United States, about 30 miles from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The city covers more than 40 square miles and is the second largest city in Cameron County, as well as the sixth largest in the Rio Grande Valley. As of the 2010 census the city had a population of 64,849, for a growth rate of 12.5% since the 2000 census. It is the city with the least expensive cost of living in the United States.
Harlingen is a principal city of the Brownsville–Harlingen metropolitan area, which is part of the larger Brownsville-Harlingen-Raymondville combined statistical area, included in the Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan area.
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Mapsplusmotion presents computer-animated maps digitizing the historical development of cities and rural areas
Harlingen 1350-2008
The Hannemahuis museum commissioned Mapsplusmotion to make a dynamic historical map of the city in 2008. This animation (dutch) shows the growth and development of Harlingen from the 14th century to the present day.
The digital historical map forms the basis of an interactive programme about the history of Harlingen. Voice over, historical photos and films relate the history of the oldest city in the province of Friesland.
Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisory - For Harlingen TX
18-June-2018
Cameron TX.
528 PM CDT MON JUN 18 2018
The National Weather Service in Brownsville has issued a
* Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisory for...
West central Cameron County in Deep South Texas...
* Until 700 PM CDT.
* At 527 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream flooding
in the advisory area. One to two inches of rain have fallen.
* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Harlingen, Valley Baptist Medical Center Harlingen, Texas State
Technical College Harlingen, Harlingen Arts And Heritage Museum, Lamar Elementary School, Harlingen Medical Center, Harlingen High School, Harlingen Soccer Complex, Harlingen Public Library and Harlingen City Reservoir.
This includes Interstate Highway 69 E between mile markers 21 and 29.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.
Harlingen Army Air Field and Harlingen Air Force Base
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Harlingen's Startling 0-2 Start
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Woman Disturbed by Bizarre Bags Left at Harlingen Cemetery
Texas Public Schools Week Kick Off
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South Texas history
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The History of Rio Grande
Rio Grande began with a vision of better serving the jewelry industry. What started as a small operation has grown into an international distribution center for thousands of valued customers. Our vision remains much as it was when Saul Bell founded the company more than 60 years ago, with customer service, support and satisfaction the basis for all business conduct.
50th Anniversary of Largest March in Texas History (Part 1)
More than 15,000 people marched on the capitol in Austin on Labor Day 1966, the final day of a 490-mile march that started in the Rio Grande Valley and paved the way for farmworkers rights throughout Texas.
Cesar Chavez, director of the United Farm Workers, led the way during those final miles joined by other members of his union who had just celebrated a major win over grape farmers in Delano, California. But the fight was just starting in Texas.
On June 1, 1966, more than 400 farmworkers went on strike against the Starr County melon growers who were paying them between 40 and 85 cents an hour. Demanding a minimum wage of $1.25, they shut down every packing shed in the county in the middle of the melon harvest, which was the main crop at the time.
Strike-breakers were brought in from Mexico and the melon harvest ended in mid-June with growers blaming their poor harvest on the weather. Strikers still claimed a partial victory despite the lack of contracts reached with the farm owners, according to a 1967 UFW publication Sons of Zapata, which provides a brief photographic history of the farmworkers’ strike in Texas.
It was mid-summer in 1966 when strikers decided to hit the road in an effort to gain support among other farmworkers and sympathizers across the state. With a portrait of the Virgen de Guadalupe, they began making their way through the Rio Grande Valley and through South Texas.
Rebecca Flores, former director of the UFW in Texas from 1975-2005, has been at the forefront of the various rally’s commemorating the melon strike and march. She’s been documenting the different stories and testimonies from those who participated in the marches in hopes to one day having them included in the history books.
“There are no historical documents,” Flores said. “All these are just rallies to remember the farmworkers and bring some of them out, the few who are still with us.”
UFW organizers plan to map the entire march from Rio Grande City to Corpus Christi, San Antonio and Austin with historical markers commemorating the event widely viewed as having given rise to the Chicano movement.
They traveled 10 to 12 miles a day and gained support from almost every union in Texas, religious leaders from all major faiths, and thousands of sympathizers. They mostly stayed in churches where parishioners would provide them with food, water and safety.
A special Mass was held for the marchers in San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio where UFW leaders and marchers are gathering Monday to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the marchers’ arrival to Austin.
“This day was a key moment for the workers who were greeted by the archbishop and he provided his full support,” Flores said. “And celebrating the day of is really important.”
Friday, La Union Del Pueblo Entero will host a celebration at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley campus in Edinburg, and on Sunday, historians, marchers and labor rights groups will gather at St. Edward’s University in Austin to march to the capitol.
For more information, visit farmworkers2016.org.
Boomerang Billy of South Padre Island
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Steve Hathcock and Griff Mangan tell stories about John McMahon, Boomerang Billy at Paragraphs Book Store on South Padre Island, a very interesting chapter in the history of south Padre Island.
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Aerial shots flying over the severely flooded town of Harlingen in southern Texas. This town is the centre of the wide spread floods of the Rio Grande, one of the after affects of hurricane Beulah.
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History of McAllen: 1961-1970
McAllen had gained more population in the 1950's than the total population of 1940 and in 1950 McAllen's population was 32,728.
In the city's past was an economy based on agriculture and in McAllen's future it was an economy base which would include tourism and retail shopping.
In 1961 McAllen celebrated it's 50th birthday as a Texas city.
It was a leading resort for Americans from the Nothern states wanting to avoid the snow and ice of winter and Winter Texan became a new phrase to describe these visitors.
McAllen was also becoming a very imortant port of entry for goods and services from Mexico.
Air stream caravans into Mexico were a large and yearly event.
Citrus, cotton and vegitables were being shipped North by the train car load.
The new McAllen High School was opened, large, expansive and very modern for 1965.
In 1967 the new McAllen City Hall was dedicated, also a modern design.
The Library was expanded due to demand from the growing population.
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Missing: Millions of years of RGV history
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Stockholm Settlement in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas
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Stockholm Settlement in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas
The Stockholm Settlement in the Rio Grande Valley, circa 1915, was a group of Swedish settlers from Minnesota who immigrated to work the fields of the Magic Valley.