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Henderson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 82,150. [1] The county seat is Athens. [2] The county is named in honor of James Pinckney Henderson, the first attorney general of the Republic of Texas, and secretary of state for the republic. [3] He later served as the first governor of Texas.
Henderson is a city and the county seat of Rusk County, Texas, [4] in Northeast Texas, United States. Its population was 13,271 at the 2020 census. Its population was 13,271 at the 2020 census. Henderson is named for James Pinckney Henderson , the first governor of Texas .
This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Henderson County, Texas. There is one property listed on the National Register in the county, a property that is also a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August ...
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History. Cross Roads is at the junction of Farm roads 59 and 3441 in southwestern Henderson County. The town was founded in 1846 by the Reverend Hezekiah Mitcham and his wife Mary Clarke Mitcham, who had come from Marengo County, Alabama, according to that county's 1830 Census. The earliest settlement was called Science Hill.
Henderson County: 213: Athens: 1846: Houston County and Nacogdoches County: James Pinckney Henderson, the first governor of Texas (1846–1847) 86,158: 874 sq mi (2,264 km 2) Hidalgo County: 215: Edinburg: 1852: Cameron County: Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753–1811), the priest who raised the call for Mexico's independence from Spain 898,471: ...
Rusk County is a county located in Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 52,214. [1] Its county seat is Henderson. [2] The county is named for Thomas Jefferson Rusk, a secretary of war of the Republic of Texas. Rusk County is part of the Longview, Texas metropolitan area and the Longview-Marshall combined statistical area.
The city was developed after the construction of Lake Palestine in the early 1960s. [5] As it is located on a sliver of Henderson County, a wet county, which extends eastward onto Lake Palestine and Texas State Highway 155, a number of liquor stores sprang up by the 1980s to capture business from residents of Tyler and neighboring Smith County (which at the time was dry). [6]