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| | Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary, McKinney, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Miss Bessie Heard was born on May 26, 1886, in McKinney, Texas, the eldest of five daughters of John Spencer Heard and Rachel Heard, one of the early founding families of Collin County. |
 | | This material is from the wildlife sanctuary and adjacent tall grass prairies. |
 | | Wildlife sanctuary: 289-acre riparian, wetlands, floodplain forest, native prairie wildlife habitat adjacent to museum; species of birds, mammals and reptiles and amphibians (240); species of wildflowers (150); species of trees and shrubs (50). |
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