Big Valley Pecan Farm in San Saba County, with an asking price of $25 million, belongs to the third-generation heirs of one O.P. Leonard, who was born in northeast Texas at the tail end of the 19th ...

Texas settlers looked around them and saw, on the banks of almost every river and stream, pecan groves that seemed to stretch into infinity. Without compunction they chopped the trees down to grow ...

He said, ‘well I’m missing my tractor shed,’” said Crittenten. “It looked a whole lot better on his property than it did on ...

From the Galveston (Texas) News, July 3 ... "Yes," said he, in response to an interrogatory, "I have a pecan orchard of 11,000 trees, covering 400 acres, within two miles of the town of Brownwood.

This shot didn’t win, but the pecan would become the Texas state tree in 1919. Its popularity had been growing since 1906, when former Governor James Hogg’s last wishes included a walnut tree ...

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Firefighters continue battling a wildfire that ignited Wednesday night on a pecan orchard, scorching over 600 acres.