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La Grange (/ l ə ˈ ɡ r eɪ n dʒ / lə GRAYNJ) is a city in Fayette County, Texas, United States, near the Colorado River.La Grange is in the center of the Texas-German belt. The population was 4,391 at the 2020 census, [4] and in 2018 the estimated population was 4,632. [5]
La Grange: Area • Total. 960 sq mi (2,500 km 2) • Land: 950 sq mi (2,500 km 2) • Water: ... Fayette County, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition
The Fayette County Courthouse Square Historic District in La Grange, Texas is a historic district roughly bounded by Main, Lafayette, Franklin, Colorado, Jefferson, Washington, and Crockett Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 16, 2001.
Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites are two state historic sites managed by the Texas Historical Commission. They are located at 29.888° -96.876°, just off U.S. Route 77, south of La Grange, Texas. The sites sit on a sandstone bluff 200 feet above the Colorado River.
The Fayette County Courthouse and the Fayette County Jail are two historic buildings in La Grange, Texas. The courthouse was designed by James Riely Gordon and built in 1891 by Martin, Byrne and Johnston. [3] [4] The jail was built earlier in 1881 by Fritz Schulte and designed by John Andrewartha and James Wahrenberger. [5]
Bus. SH 71 east – La Grange: West end of freeway: La Grange: US 77 / Von Minden Street – Giddings, Schulenburg: Access to St Mark's Medical Center: SH 159 – Bellville, La Grange Bus. SH 71 west – La Grange: East end of freeway FM 955 north – Fayetteville: Ellinger: FM 2503 north: Colorado: Hillcrest: FM 1890 west (Shaws Bend Road) Bus.
State Highway 159 (SH 159) is a Texas state highway that runs from La Grange to Fayetteville in Fayette County, through Industry and Bellville in Austin County, and ends at Hempstead in Waller County. The route was designated on March 19, 1930 from SH 73 east to Hempstead as a renumbering of SH 73A.
The Chicken Ranch was an illegal brothel in the U.S. state of Texas that operated from 1905 until 1973 in Fayette County, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of downtown La Grange The business was notably dramatized in the 1978 Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas , adapted into a 1982 film of the same name .