La Porte, TX, United States
La Porte. Colorado-based land developers A. M. York, J. H. York, I. R. Holmes, and Tom Lee formed the La Porte Land and Town Company in 1890. They purchased over 1,000 acres of land in this area and began laying out town lots in the fall of 1891. Edward York later joined his two brothers and the oth
er investors to organize the La Porte Investment Company. Advertising to prospective settlers in New York State and the midwest, the developers began selling lots by January 1892. Soon a hotel, genera
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