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The Weatherford Downtown Historic District is located in Weatherford, Texas, the seat of Parker County. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 23, 1990. See also
Location of Brazoria County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Brazoria County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Brazoria County, Texas. There are two districts and 10 individual properties listed on the ...
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Check out what life was like in North Texas town of Weatherford, the Parker County seat since the mid-1800s. ... Aug. 22, 1946: Dave Hudson, left, of Weatherford, Texas; Bill McDowd (center) and ...
The Parker County Courthouse is an historic building located at Courthouse Square in Weatherford, Texas, the seat of Parker County.Built in 1884–1886, it was the county's fourth courthouse; the first was a wooden building, and the second and third both burned down.
Brazoria is located southwest of the center of Brazoria County. The northeastern edge of the community, known as Old Brazoria, is located along the Brazos River. Texas State Highway 36 runs through the center of the city, leading southeast 16 miles (26 km) to Freeport and northwest 41 miles (66 km) to Rosenberg.
Chandor Gardens is a historic 3.5 acres (1.4 hectares) garden established in Weatherford, Texas, US, by the British-born portrait painter Douglas Chandor (1897–1953) in 1936. [1] Originally named White Shadows, it was renamed by his widow Ina Kuteman after his death in 1953, and kept open to the public until her death in 1978. [1]
Levi Jordan (1793–1873), a Georgia-born planter, traveled in 1848 to Brazoria County, Texas, bringing with him twelve enslaved Black people. [3] Previously, Jordan had owned adjoining plantations on the Louisiana-Arkansas border (Union County, Arkansas) with his son-in-law, James Campbell McNeill, [2] however he was not as successful as he wanted to be.