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In 1846, the Texas Legislature created Palestine to serve as a seat for the newly established Anderson County. James R. Fulton, Johnston Shelton, and William Bigelow were hired by the first Anderson County commissioners to survey the surrounding land and lay out a town site. This consisted of a central courthouse square and the surrounding 24 ...
Palestine: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark; currently the Museum for East Texas Culture: 20: Palestine New Town Commercial Historic District: Palestine New Town Commercial Historic District: October 6, 2021 : Roughly bounded by North Queen, Crawford, North Houston, and Spring Sts.
Anderson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.Located within East Texas, its county seat is Palestine. [1] As of the 2020 United States census, the population of Anderson County was 57,922. [2]
The Anderson County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at 1 Public Square in Palestine, Anderson County, Texas. The Beaux-Arts style building was erected atop the highest hill in Palestine. Austin architects Charles Henry Page and Louis Charles Page designed the structure. Workers oversaw the erection in 1913 and 1914, and the finished ...
Crystal Lake is an unincorporated community in Anderson County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 20 in 2000. It is located within the Palestine, Texas micropolitan area.
Kilgore was founded in 1872 when the International–Great Northern Railroad completed the initial phase of rail line between Palestine and Longview.The rail company chose to bypass New Danville, a small community about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Longview, in lieu of a new townsite platted on 174 acres (0.70 km 2) sold to the railroad by Constantine Buckley Kilgore, the town's namesake.
The total amount sold by the Sursocks and their partners represented 22% of all land purchased by Jews in Palestine until 1948, and, as first identified by Arthur Ruppin in 1907, this sale was perceived as vitally important in sustaining the territorial continuity of Jewish settlement in Palestine. [7]
Howard House in Palestine, Texas was built in 1848 by Reuben A. Reeves, Texas State Supreme Court Justice, and justice of the Supreme Court of the New Mexico Territory. [2] When Reeves moved away from Palestine in 1850, the house was purchased by local merchant George R. Howard.