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Texas's 5th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives is in an area that includes a northeast portion of the City of Dallas, Dallas County including Mesquite plus a number of smaller suburban, exurban and rural counties south and east of Dallas, including Anderson, Cherokee, Henderson, Van Zandt, and Kaufman.
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Van Zandt County is commonly known as the Free State of Van Zandt. The title was particularly prevalent through the Reconstruction Era, but is still in use today.Many versions of the county's history may account for this moniker, and historians, even within the county and throughout its existence, do not agree how exactly it became known as the Free State.
District 2 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that serves all of Kaufman, Navarro, Rockwall, and Van Zandt counties, and portions of Collin, Dallas, and Ellis counties in the U.S. state of Texas.
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The district serves central Henderson County, [5] and small portions of southern Van Zandt and northern Anderson counties. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] As of November 2020, it served three thousand students. [ 8 ]
The sixth and current Van Zandt County Courthouse was built from 1936 to 1937 using special county funds and a grant from the federal Public Works Administration. The building was designed by Voelcker & Dixon in an Art Deco style. [2] [9] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. [2]
There was a church, a cemetery, a seasonal industry, and several scattered houses here in 1936. It then received electricity in 1944. The population was reduced by half in the late 1960s and went up to 125 from the early 1970s through 2000. A 1984 county highway map showed a church and some businesses in Martin's Mill. [2]