When the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio railroad was built through the area in 1876, the stop was named Hilda.
In 1854 he invested in the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway, which gained him acres of land in northwestern and western Texas.
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Stephen Korns, an Amherst, Massachusetts-based artist, working with the New York lighting firm L’Observatoire, conceived of the color phase shifting which will ultimately include the entire Buffalo Bayou greenway.
The first successful attempt to establish a Harrisburg Railroad line was Texian General Sidney Sherman, a hero of the Battle of San Jacinto.
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Jonathan F. Barrett was the company's first president, and the company included some of the leading men of the state: General Sherman himself, Hugh McLeod, John G. Tod, John Angier, William Rice, Ebenezer A. Allen, William A. van Alstyne, James H. Stevens, Benjamin A. Shepherd, and William J. Hutchins.
In 1851, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway (B.B.B. & C.) began construction of its line between Harrisburg and Alleyton, Texas.