a combining form meaning âthat which carriesâ the thing specified by the initial element, used in the formation of compound words: aquifer; conifer; foraminifer. Origin of -fer. < Latin, derivative of ferre to bear1, in L generally forming adjectives; the corresponding E adjectives add -ous; see -ferous.
About thirty years later, the modern neighborhood of Glenbrook Valley took shape. With the launch of. the new Gulf Freeway, the first freeway in Texas, in 1948, Houstonians began to move out of the city. center and into planned neighborhoods of single-family homes.
Maydelle, Texas Area Hotels > Palestine Hotels. Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, August 2013. History in a Pecan Shell. The area around Maydelle was settled as early as the 1840s, but the town didn't form until the railroad was built. Camp Wright had been a satellite prison that housed prisoners making charcoal for the foundry at Rusk.