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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]
Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites are two state historic sites managed by the Texas Historical Commission. They are located at 29.888° -96.876°, just off U.S. Route 77, south of La Grange, Texas. The sites sit on a sandstone bluff 200 feet above the Colorado River.
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 .
La Grange: Area • Total. 960 sq mi (2,500 km 2) • Land: ... hosted by the Portal to Texas History This page was last edited on 10 December 2024, at 01: ...
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.
John Moore and the La Grange volunteers hunted down a Comanche war party that had escaped the battle and all but exterminated them. [10] Buffalo Hump continued to raid white settlements until 1844, when he negotiated peace, and after Texas acquired statehood he agreed to settle his band into the Treaty of Council Springs, while European ...
La Grange Railroad Museum La Grange Fayette La Grange M-K-T (Katy) Railroad Depot [102] Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites: La Grange Fayette National Register of Historic Places. Art Deco-style Monument to victims of the Dawson Massacre and the Mier Expedition, also Kreische House and tours of the brewery ruins [103] N.W ...
"La Grange" is a song by the American rock group ZZ Top, from their 1973 album Tres Hombres. One of ZZ Top's most successful songs, it was released as a single in 1973 and received extensive radio play, rising to No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1974. [ 5 ]