The Samuel Young House at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas
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Young, his wife and two children drove an oxcart from Illinois to accept the new Texas Republic's offer of free land in 1836. He later split rails on the Texas Central Railroad and ran cattle on the Chisholm Trail.
Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).
Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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Date
2010 - 2020
Contributors
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Location
Plano (Tex.), 33.01972, -96.69889
Source
Library of Congress
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