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The Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site is a historic site at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, where the Convention of 1836 adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence. The government of Texas purchased 50 acres (20 ha) of the old townsite in 1916 and built a replica of the building where the delegates met. The state acquired more of ...
There are at least three listings in each of Washington's 39 counties. The National Register of Historic Places recognizes buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States. [1] Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] more than 1,500 are in Washington.
Texas Emergency Reserve: Texas [49] Texas Light Foot Militia (statewide) Texas [50] Ohio Unorganized Militia Assistance and Advisory Committee Ohio [51] Oklahoma Constitutional Militia Oklahoma [52] Viper Militia: Arizona [53] Washington State Militia Washington [54] [55] West Virginia Mountaineer Militia: Clarksburg, West Virginia [56 ...
Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. Year 2000 population was 110. [234] Jermyn: Jack: Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. Year 2000 population was 75. [235] Jewel: Eastland [236] Jim Town: Dallas [237] Jimkurn: Stephens [238] Joinerville: Rusk [239] Jonesboro
Friedens (German for Peace) was founded in 1890 by German immigrants to Washington County, [1] former members of the Evangelical Church of Germany. [2]The church was constructed a mile and a half south of Washington, Texas, on two acres purchased in October 1888 for $1. [3]
Home of Samuel Rhoads Fisher, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the secretary of the Republic of Texas navy. Sweeny-Waddy Log Cabin: East Columbia: 1833 One of the oldest remaining slave cabins in the state built by John Sweeny Sr. for the Waddy family who continued living in it after they were freed. Col. Charles DeMorse Home
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Allstate created the "world's largest driving behavior database," with data on more than 45 million Americans, by paying mobile app developers millions of ...
The colony's origins lay in ideas of New England reformers in the mid-1890s. Norman Wallace Lermond, a journalist and farmer in Warren, Maine, and Ed Pelton had been intrigued by an idea originally suggested by Socialist Labor Party member F.G.R. Gordon that a series of socialist colonies be established in a single western state (Gordan suggested Texas.)