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1372492 [3] Website. www.cityofbellville.com. Bellville is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Austin County. The city's population was 4,206 at the 2020 census. [4] Bellville is on the eastern edge of the Texas-German belt, and Bellville is known for its German culture and descendants of those Germans still call Bellville home.
Once in Texas, they settled in the Bellville area of Austin County, Texas. Johann, university educated, was formerly the forester for the city of Annaberg in Saxony. His wife Henrietta (1814–1850) [3] died in Texas in 1850 and is buried at the Machemehl Cemetery. Johann married twice more, had four more children, died in 1880 and is also ...
Texas independence. Thomas Bell received 2,000 acres of land from the Republic of Texas in 1837. It is known that a Thomas Bell was living with his family in Austin County in 1844. Since a new county seat to replace San Felipe was desired, he along with his brother James Bell donated the land on which Bellville was founded in 1846. The town ...
86001611 [1] Added to NRHP. August 14, 1986. The Old Masonic Hall (also known as Old Masonic Lodge Building) is a historic building in Bellville, Texas. Constructed in 1886, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1] Today, the building houses the headquarters of the Bellville Historical Society.
Bellville High School. / 29.9248; -96.2519. Bellville High School is a public high school located in the city of Bellville, Texas in Austin County, United States and classified as a 4A school by the University Interscholastic League (UIL). It is a part of the Bellville Independent School District located in central Austin County.
Goodwin currently works as a real estate developer and president of Oldham Goodwin Group, LLC. He resides in College Station, Texas with his wife, Amber (also Texas A&M University Class of 1997), daughter Ella Grace, and son Rockne "Holt" Goodwin. He appeared in Fox Sports Southwest as a commentator during the 2005 Texas A&M Football season.
Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American-born empresario. Known as the " Father of Texas " and the founder of Anglo Texas, [1][2] he led the second and, ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families and their slaves from the United States to the Tejas region of Mexico in 1825.
Bell District is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in Central Texas and its county seat is Belton. [1] As of the 2020 census, its population was 370,647. [2][3] Bell County is part of the Killeen – Temple, Texas, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county was founded in 1850 and is named for Peter Hansborough Bell, the third governor ...