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The Fort Bend County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located in Richmond, Texas, United States. It was built in 1908 by Charles Henry Page, who also designed several other Texas courthouses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in 1980 and designated a Texas State Antiquities ...
Fort Bend County was created from parts of Austin, Harris, and Brazoria Counties in 1838. Fort Bend developed a plantation economy based on cotton as the commodity crop. Planters had numerous African-American slaves as laborers. By the 1850s, Fort Bend was one of six majority-black counties in Texas. [ 7 ]
400 Jackson St. 29°34′54″N 95°45′42″W. / 29.581667°N 95.761667°W / 29.581667; -95.761667 ( Fort Bend County Courthouse) Richmond. State Antiquities Landmark, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. 2. Henry G. and Annie B. Green House. Henry G. and Annie B. Green House.
September 4, 2024 at 1:06 PM. FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas - Taral Patel, Democratic nominee for Fort Bend County Precinct 3 Commissioner, has been indicted for impersonating people online to threaten ...
The oldest federal civil building in Texas, the 1861 Customs and Courthouse in Galveston, once housed the Southern District of Texas. Federal Courthouse in Galveston that housed the court & its predecessor, from 1891–1917 [2] Since its foundation, the Southern District of Texas has been served by forty-one District Judges and six Clerks of Court.
Fort Bend County Courthouse: Richmond, Fort Bend County: 1908 built [218] 1980 RTHL [219] 1980 NRHP [220] Designed by C. H. Page in the Beaux-Arts style. [218] Franklin County Courthouse: Mount Vernon, Franklin County: 1912 built [221] 2006 NRHP [222] 2009–14 restored [223] Designed by L. L. Thurman and Company in the Neoclassical style. [221]
7. The Jaybird–Woodpecker War (1888–89) was a feud between two United States Democratic Party factions fighting for political control of Fort Bend County, Texas, in the southeast part of the state. [1][2][3] The Jay Bird Democratic Association was an all-White political organization formed in 1887 by young men to challenge and regain ...
Judge Antonia “Toni” Arteaga - 1st woman to be elected to the historic 57th District Court which was created in 1899. Irene Gertrude Brown (1911): [105] First female lawyer in San Antonio, Texas [Bexar County, Texas] Lanette Heilbron Glasscock (1931): [106] One of the first practicing female lawyers in Bexar County, Texas.