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Grimes County is a county located in southeastern Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 29,268. [1] The seat of the county is Anderson. [2] The county was formed from Montgomery County in 1846. [3] It is named for Jesse Grimes, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and early European-American settler of the ...
Location of Grimes County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grimes County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Grimes County, Texas. There are two districts and four individual properties listed on the ...
Grimes County was organized in 1846, soon after the Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States. Henry Fanthorp, a new Anglo-American settler in Texas, offered land for the county seat. The town grew quickly between 1846 and 1885, reaching a peak population of about 3,000 people. County population was majority-black and enslaved by 1860.
Stoneham is an unincorporated community in Grimes County, Texas, United States. [1] The town was once a part of a colony operated by Stephen F. Austin and by 1900, the population grew to 250. Although a ghost town by 1970, the town has since grown in population.
Bedias (/ ˈ b iː d aɪ s / BEE-dysse) is a city in Grimes County, Texas, United States at the intersection of State Highway 90 and Farm Roads 1696 and 2620, 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Navasota in northeastern Grimes County.
On July 3, 1845, Kenneth Lewis Anderson, vice-president of the Republic of Texas died from illness at the Inn while en route home from Washington-on-the-Brazos. [4] On September 1, 2019, Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site was transferred from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Texas Historical Commission.
Hadley also served in the Army of the Republic of Texas in 1836. Due to his military service, he was gifted land in Grimes County, totalling 320 acres. Throughout his life, he married twice, firstly to Obedience Grantham, with whom he had five children, and secondly the widowed Joyce Voilet Bostick McGuffin. [7]
Jesse Grimes (1788–1866) was a Texas pioneer and politician. Before moving to Texas, he fought in the War of 1812. He was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. He served as Senator in the Republic of Texas Congress and in the Texas State Legislature. Grimes County was named in his honor. [1]