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Hempstead is also known for its early 20th-century rough-and-tumble character. The town was informally called Six Shooter Junction. [10] The town has grown in recent years because of its relative closeness to Houston along U.S. Highway 290. The current economy is based on county government, shipping, and a small but growing industrial base.
Kenedy is a city in Karnes County, Texas, United States, named for Mifflin Kenedy, [4] who bought 400,000 acres (1,600 km 2) and wanted to develop a new town that would carry his name. The population was 3,473 at the 2020 census, [5] up from 3,296 at the 2010 census.
Sixshooter, Texas is an unincorporated area in southeastern Pecos County, Texas. It gets its name from the Sixshooter Draw, a tributary of the Monument Draw . Sixshooter has a telephone exchange in Area code 432 .
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Advertisement for the sale of lots in the Town of Montgomery, Texas from the July 8, 1837 edition of the Telegraph and Texas Register newspaper published in Houston, Texas. The town of Montgomery was founded in the middle of the Lake Creek Settlement by W. W. Shepperd in July 1837 on 200 acres of land that had originally been part of the John ...
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It was the first Anglo-American settlement in what is today western Montgomery County, Texas. In July 1837, the town of Montgomery, Texas was founded in the middle of the Lake Creek Settlement, at the site of W. W. Shepperd's store. It was located near the West Fork of the San Jacinto River, which had keel boat navigation to that point.