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All posts tagged "Looking Through Our History"

  • A Unique Look at the September 1933 Hurricane

    The 1933 Cuba–Brownsville hurricane was one of two storms in the 1933 Atlantic hurricane season to reach the intensity of a Category 5 strength.On September 2, it attained winds of 140 mph. Initially the hurricane posed a threat...

  • The Incorporated Town

    On March 22, 1915, the 400 inhabitants of La Feria petitioned the Honorable H. L. Yates, County...

  • Banditos Plague the Valley and La Feria

    When the Madero Revolution started in 1910, thousands of Mexican citizens, rich merchants and ranchers, fled to...

  • James B. Smith, A Zealous Schoolman

    J.B. Smith, who was elected principal of the La Feria High School in 1931, came to La...