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.
Glenville was incorporated in 1856. Before the 1930s, the Little Kanawha Riverâs commercial traffic dominated the townâs economy. Road construction contributed to the demise of riverboating by the late 1930s. The natural gas and oil industry rose to prominence after oil was struck in 1875 at nearby Letter Gap.