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Brazoria is located southwest of the center of Brazoria County. The northeastern edge of the community, known as Old Brazoria, is located along the Brazos River. Texas State Highway 36 runs through the center of the city, leading southeast 16 miles (26 km) to Freeport and northwest 41 miles (66 km) to Rosenberg.
Brazoria County takes its name from the Brazos River, which flows through it. Anglo-Texas began in Brazoria County when the first of Stephen F. Austin's authorized 300 American settlers arrived at the mouth of the Brazos in 1821. Many of the events leading to the Texas Revolution developed in Brazoria County. In 1832, Brazoria was organized as ...
Location of Brazoria County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Brazoria County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Brazoria County, Texas. There are two districts and 10 individual properties listed on the ...
The documentary is accompanied by an 18-minute documentary short called I-Witness to 9/11, which features interviews with nine firsthand eyewitnesses who captured the footage on camera. According to this film, most of the archival footage was in possession of the U.S. government but was not released to History until years after 9/11.
The Varner–Hogg Plantation State Historic Site is a historical site operated by the Texas Historical Commission. The site was the home of former Governor of Texas James S. Hogg and his family. The site is located outside West Columbia, in Brazoria County. [2]
Levi Jordan (1793–1873), a Georgia-born planter, traveled in 1848 to Brazoria County, Texas, bringing with him twelve enslaved Black people. [3] Previously, Jordan had owned adjoining plantations on the Louisiana-Arkansas border (Union County, Arkansas) with his son-in-law, James Campbell McNeill, [2] however he was not as successful as he wanted to be.
Port Freeport, originally known as the Brazos River Harbor Navigation District of Brazoria County, is a Special District created under the Texas Constitution by the legislature in 1925 and approved by the citizens of Brazoria County. Port Freeport is a local government entity that is governed by a board of commissioners elected by the voters of ...
The San Felipe incident was the first naval battle fought between Mexican and rebel forces during the Texas Revolution. [1] Thomas McKinney deliberately provoked the Mexican government by heavily arming the merchant ship San Felipe, filling it with a cargo of munitions meant for Texian revolutionaries, and sending it from New Orleans to Brazoria, Texas.