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|   Lon C. Hill Park, Harlingen, Texas
in Municipal Parks and Plazas Part of Harlingen’s Civic Center, Lon C. Hill Park is the city’s main recreational area. The park is heavily landscaped, with a picnic area, baseball fields, a pool, tennis courts, playgrounds, basketball courts and a butterfly garden. posted by:  JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 2/9/2008 last visited: never |
 view galleryS3.9 km |  TIC - Texas State Information Center, Harlingen, Texas
in Tourist Information Centers - Visitor Centers Featuring a taste of both Texas - it’s located amongst a labyrinth of concrete overpasses - and the Valley - in the courtyard grow grapefruit trees laden with fruit - this State Visitors Center is packed with information and a knowledgeable staff.
posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 3/21/2008 last visited: 1/9/2010 |
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| City Lake Park, Harlingen, Texas in Municipal Parks and Plazas This park is pretty, with very pleasant landscaping, but the only amenities are a jogging trail around the lake and a fountain. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 2/9/2008 last visited: never |
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|  Iwo Jima Monument & Memorial Museum - Harlingen, Texas
in Official Local Tourism Attractions You might read somewhere that Harlingen has the ‘original’ Iwo Jima statue. What that means is that the gypsum mold for the statue is here - along with a very interesting museum devoted to the Battle of Iwo Jima. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 3/30/2008 last visited: never |
 view galleryS4.7 km |  Target Harlingen
in Starbucks Stores Starbucks inside a Target. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/29/2008 last visited: never |
 view galleryE4.8 km |  Lon C. Hill Home
in Texas Historical Markers This Victorian house, built in 1904 by Harlingen founder Lon C. Hill, was the first home built in the city. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/23/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryE5 km | Harlingen Army Airfield and Harlingen Air Force Base in Texas Historical Markers The city of Harlingen donated 960 acres to the federal government for the building of an airfield in 1941. The base closed in 1962, a portion becoming Valley International Airport. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/23/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryE5 km |  Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum, Harlingen, Texas
in History Museums An art museum with temporary exhibitions, the oldest house in Harlingen, a room full of Valley history, and a recreated hospital and inn make up the Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 3/8/2008 last visited: never |
 view galleryS5.8 km | C.B. Wood Park, Harlingen, Texas in Municipal Parks and Plazas This is where the bike trail along the muddy Arroyo Colorado begins. The park itself sits on a bluff above the arroyo, with restrooms, a playground, open fields and picnic tables. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 2/9/2008 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE6.6 km | Arroyo Park, Harlingen, Texas in Municipal Parks and Plazas Arroyo Park is a vast, barren, treeless landscape dotted with a few picnic pavilions, restrooms and a playground. It does give access to the Arroyo Colorado bicycle trail - way in the back.
posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 2/9/2008 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE6.8 km | Hugh Ramsey Nature Park, Harlingen, Texas in Municipal Parks and Plazas Part of the World Birding Center, Hugh Ramsey Park has 95 acres filled with trails and birding blinds, winding through Texas Ebony woodlands down to the reed-filled bottomlands along the Arroyo Colorado. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 2/9/2008 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE7.1 km | Ed Carey & Sunshine Strip, Harlingen, Texas in Starbucks Stores Nice little Starbucks. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 3/23/2008 last visited: never |
 view galleryE12.1 km | Stagecoach to the Rio Grande, C.S.A. in Texas Historical Markers Story of stagecoach travel during the Confederacy posted by:  8Nuts MotherGoose location: Texas date listed: 4/28/2007 last visited: never |
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|  Longoria Unit, Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area - Santa Rosa, Texas
in Public Access Lands Surrounded by miles of savannah, the Longoria Unit preserves a sliver of original Rio Grande Valley habitat. If you come here, be on the lookout for swarming hordes of butterflies. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 3/29/2008 last visited: never |
 view galleryS19.3 km | Thornton Skirmish in Texas Historical Markers On this spot, American troops were attacked by Mexican troops in 1846 on land claimed by both America and Mexico. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/15/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryS19.3 km | Alonso de Leon Expeditions in Texas Historical Markers De Leon led expeditionary forces into Texas to find and expel the French. He later led settlers to the Rio Grande Valley to protect the area from future French encroachment. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/15/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryS19.5 km | Las Rucias in Texas Historical Markers It was near here that the Confederate forces commanded by Colonel John S. Ford defeated Union forces and re-took Fort Brown. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/15/2007 last visited: never |
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| Longoria Cemetery in Texas Historical Markers The Longorias, early Spanish pioneers, settled in the valley in the mid-18th century. The Longoria ranch became one of the largest in the Rio Grande Valley. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/15/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW20 km |  Longoria Cemetery, Santa Maria, Texas, USA
in Worldwide Cemeteries U.S. 281 is lined with small, family cemeteries. The plot for the Longoria family, one of the largest landowners in the Valley, now contains almost 400 graves. The gravesites are decorated by family members for Day of the Dead each October. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 3/16/2008 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW20.6 km | Rancho de Santa Maria in Texas Historical Markers This ranch, part of the La Feria Grant, has been used at various times by the U.S. Military when trouble sparked on the southern border. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/15/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW20.6 km | Our Lady of Visitation Catholic Church in Texas Historical Markers This marker answers the question: "Does it ever snow in the Lower Rio Grande Valley?" posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/15/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW21.6 km | Mercedes Civic Center, Mercedes, Texas in Municipal Parks and Plazas Sparkling new subdivisions might be sprouting in northern Mercedes, but the city’s primary park is as derelict as its main business district. The picnic tables and playground equipment are rusted; grass is sprouting through the basketball court; and the whole park could use a good mowing. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 12/3/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW21.7 km | Battle of La Bolsa in Texas Historical Markers A mile to the south, John S. "Rip" Ford's Texas Rangers successfully defended a steamship on the Rio Grande from a raid by Juan N. Cortina. Cortina's raids continued until he escaped into Mexico, where he became a general in the Mexican Army. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/15/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW23.5 km | El Horcon Tract and Rio Rico in Texas Historical Markers Perhaps this is a cautionary tale of what might happen to the two miles of American soil between the Rio Grande and the proposed border fence. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/15/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryS24 km | Esparza Cemetery in Texas Historical Markers The gravestones in this cemetery are a record of the area's early Mexican-American pioneers. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/12/2007 last visited: never |
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