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Coordinates: 29.9429°N 96.2547°W. Front Exterior of Machemehl House. The L. A. and Adelheid Machemehl House, a Texas Historical Landmark of the Texas Historical Commission, was built in the early 20th century. The house was a center of social activity for the German Texan community in Bellville, Texas, United States. [1]
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Austin County is a rural, agricultural dominated county in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,167. [1] [2] Its seat is Bellville. [3]The county and region was settled primarily by German emigrants in the 1800s.
1349512 [1] Washington-on-the-Brazos is an unincorporated community along the Brazos River in Washington County, Texas, United States. [1] The town is best known for being the site of the Convention of 1836 and the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence. The town is named for Washington, Georgia, itself named for George Washington.
Alfred Charles Finn (July 2, 1883 – June 26, 1964) was an American architect. He started in the profession with no formal training in 1904 as an apprentice for Sanguinet & Staats. He worked in their offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston. His credits during his tenure residential structures, but firm was a leader in steel-frame ...