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A map commissioned by the United States government in the 1860s, and sold by the Union Army for the benefit of wounded troops, indicates that, based on data from the 1860 national census, 80.9% of the population of Wharton County was enslaved. [11] The county then had a total of 3,380 people.
Raul (Roy) Benavidez, Medal of Honor recipient; was raised in El Campo from the age of 7; Gene Cernan, Astronaut (and the last person to have been on the Moon); lived in El Campo; Jeff Barosh, Texas-based country music singer-songwriter; professionally known as Jeff Chance was born and raised in El Campo. He died in El Campo in 2008 at the age ...
Plainview is a ghost town in southwestern Wharton County in the U.S. state of Texas.It was located at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 441 (FM 441) and Farm to Market Road 1163 (FM 1163), southwest of El Campo.
FM 960 was originally designated on November 23, 1948 to start at what is now Future I-69/US 59 a distance of 1.4 miles (2.3 km) northeast of El Campo in Wharton County. From there the highway was to go north via Crescent School a total of 9.7 miles (15.6 km) to a road intersection near the Colorado River.
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The Dallas developer purchasing the Fairfield Lake property plans to turn the 50-year-old state park into “a luxury lake and golf enclave” and “legacy retreat,” according to newly obtained ...
El Camino Real de los Tejas routes in Spanish Texas. Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, established the corridor for what became El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera in multiple expeditions to East Texas between 1686 and 1690 to find and destroy a French fort near Lavaca Bay, [2] established by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on what de León considered to be Spanish lands.