Dr. Harrison was a fantastic guest speaker. Everything that was involved with this property and the history of it was phenomenal. The property he was telling us about was won by his grandpa in a poker game sometime in the early 20th century. His great, great grandpa was apart of the first graduating class from Texas A&M. He said that there wasn't even dorms yet and they had to sleep in tents.
The most interesting thing about this piece of property was the 10x20x6 foot swimming pool sized hole they had to remove of contaminated dirt. He said it cost him around a quarter of a million dollars to remove a swimming pool sized hole of dirt and had to pay to ship it to Austin. This is just absolutely astounding to me of the cost of it and the delay time it took him to get it sold. I know for a fact that if I was him I would have just rented an escavator and a dump truck and hauled it off myself.
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