The Galveston Park Board of Trustees voted last week to sell riverboat replica The Colonel, a popular attraction at Moody Gardens, but is no apparent hurry.

A Leiper’s Fork home and its surrounding land have become the most high-dollar residential real estate transaction this year ...

Besides the famous original owner, the 274-acre property has river frontage and a 1,500-foot-long grass runway, said listing broker Caleb Howard.

The grand mansion, designed by architect David Adler and his interior designer sister, Frances Adler Elkins, in 1934, has most of their original work intact.