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Original plan and construction: In 1855 the U.S. Congress appropriated the sum of $100,000 to build a Custom House building for Galveston, Texas. Plans and specifications were prepared by the supervising architect of the office of Construction of the U.S. Government Treasury Department who was at that time Ammi Burnham Young.
The first Post Office was built in Galveston in 1836. The previous Customs House and Court House was built in the late 1850s but due to Galveston's growth as a port city, the need for additional Federal office and court space necessitated further construction. In fact, the need was so great the 1890s structure became inadequate in slightly more ...
Fayette County is the location of the real Chicken Ranch, which was the basis of the musical play and feature film The Best Little ... Fayette County, Texas ...
We need solutions now. I represent the type of experience—and change—Fayette County needs in the Clerk’s Office. Brystin Denguessi Kwin is a candidate for Fayette County Clerk.
For the 2021-22 fiscal year, homeowners in Fayette County paid property taxes of 80.8 cents per $100 of assessed value. Board members approved a rate recently that will go from 80.8 cents to 83.3 ...
The oldest federal civil building in Texas, the 1861 Customs and Courthouse in Galveston, once housed the Southern District of Texas. Federal Courthouse in Galveston that housed the court & its predecessor, from 1891–1917 [2] Since its foundation, the Southern District of Texas has been served by forty-one District Judges and six Clerks of Court.
Lamb, who is a former Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council member and spent more than 20 years in the council clerk’s office prior to being elected to council in 2014, said she has the long ...