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Giddings High School is a 9th-12th grade campus located in Giddings, Texas. The campus is a member of District 13-AAAA Div.2 with an enrollment of 657 students. The Texas Department of Juvenile Justice (formerly the Texas Youth Commission) operates the Giddings State School in unincorporated Lee County, near Giddings. [25]
The commission exists to help protect the health of livestock within the state. [2] The TAHC was founded in 1893 to address the Texas fever tick problem. Today, the TAHC works to protect the health of all Texas livestock, including: cattle, swine, poultry, sheep, goats, equine family animals and exotic livestock.
Lee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 17,478. [1] Its county seat is Giddings. [2] The county was founded in 1874 and is named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The county has many Confederate memorials and monuments to the Confederate States of America.
Livestock Weekly is a weekly newspaper published in San Angelo, Texas, that provides international coverage of the livestock industry, focusing on cattle, sheep, goats, range conditions, markets, and ranch life. [1] [2] It was started by Stanley R. Frank in 1948 and was later referred to as "the cowboy's Wall Street Journal." [1] [3]
Cowboys at the XIT Ranch in 1891. The XIT Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle which operated from 1885 to 1912. Comprising over 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km 2) of land, it ran for 200 miles (300 km) along the border with New Mexico, varying in width from 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 km).
The Agricultural Pavilion (formerly known as the Livestock Judging Pavilion) is a contributing property to the Texas Technological College Historic District on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The Agricultural Pavilion was one of the campus' original buildings and opened in 1926.
Today the county maintains approximately 445 miles of county roads. [109] In 1901, before the Texas Highway Department was formed, county roads were maintained via a $3.00-per-person tax, known as the "road tax." [1] Instead of paying the tax, a person could work three days a week on the road or hire someone else to take his place. [1]
Cummins Creek in Lee County, Texas, rises near Giddings and runs southeast through Lee, Fayette, and Colorado counties for sixty-five miles to its mouth on a horseshoe bend of the Colorado River, opposite Columbus. The stream is named for James (Jack) Cummins, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, who was granted the land at its mouth ...