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Pam Lychner Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice state jail for men, is located in the Atascocita CDP. [47] The state jail, which has beds for 2,200 residents and a residential probation program with 450 beds, was named after Pam Lychner. [10] [48] [49]
City of Sunset Valley (1973), in which the Supreme Court of Texas ruled in favor of AISD, leading to the construction of the complex in 1976. [7] [5]: 40–43 Sunset Valley's first city hall was built in 1977. Although informal police protection in Sunset Valley began in 1954, a formal police department was established in 1979. [6]
The Wells Branch Library district was formed in 1998 after a state law was passed to allow the establishment of library districts in areas not currently served by library systems. As a result, the library is funded by a sales tax revenue of 1/2% from Wells Branch businesses.
Seguin was the home of Dr. John E. Park, who experimented in construction using concrete made from local materials.The nearly 100 structures—the courthouse, schools, churches, homes, cisterns, walls, etc.—made up the largest concentration of early 19th-century concrete buildings in the United States. [10]
[12] [14] [15] Since 1999 this prison has been the location of Texas's death row. [ 16 ] A few miles outside of Livingston is the IAH Polk County Secure Adult Detention Center, which houses around 700 immigrant men daily who have been detained by federal agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement .
Area code 409 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Texas. The numbering plan area comprises the Beaumont and Galveston areas. It was created on March 19, 1983, in an area code split of area code 713 , the first since 619 split from 714 four months earlier.