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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.
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]
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce was founded in Fort Worth, Texas in December 1918. [1] Its first convention took place in Mineral Wells, Texas in 1919. [1] Its first chairman was Colonel Cornelius T. Herring, a rancher, banker and hotelier. [1] It published West Texas Today. [1] It merged with the Texas Chamber of Commerce in Austin, Texas ...
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 .
Fayette Regional Air Center covers an area of 195 acres (79 ha) which contains one runway designated 16/34 with a 5,001 x 75 ft (1,524 x 23 m) asphalt surface. For the 12-month period ending June 5, 2007, the airport had 9,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 24 per day.
La Grange High School is a public high school in La Grange, Texas, United States. It is a part of the La Grange Independent School District located in central Fayette County . In 2015, the school was rated " Met Standard " by the Texas Education Agency .
The world's oldest English-speaking chamber of commerce and oldest chamber of commerce in North America is the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1750. [7] [8] The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1783. [9]
St. James' Episcopal Church is a congregation of the Episcopal Church (United States) in La Grange, Texas, under the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. Its campus at Monroe and Colorado Streets includes its historic parish church as well as a sacristy , preschool, and parish hall.