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Location of Brazoria County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Brazoria County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Brazoria County, Texas. There are two districts and 10 individual properties listed on the ...
The following is a list of reservoirs and lakes in the U.S. state of Texas. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
On March 5, 1842, a Mexican force of over 500 men, led by Ráfael Vásquez, invaded Texas for the first time since the revolution. They soon headed back to the Rio Grande after briefly occupying San Antonio. 1,400 Mexican troops, led by the French mercenary general Adrian Woll launched a second attack and captured San Antonio on September 11, 1842.
Holly Lake Ranch is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wood County, Texas, United States. This was a new CDP for the 2010 census with a population of 2,774. [2] It is an unincorporated, gated, golf course community managed by a homeowner's association. [3] There is an allied Silver Leaf Resorts community of the same name at the location as well.
Lake Buchanan was the first of the Texas Highland Lakes to be formed, and with 22,333 acres (34.9 sq mi; 90.4 km 2) of surface water, it is also the largest. The surface of the lake includes area in both Burnet and Llano Counties. The lake is west of the city of Burnet, Texas.
In the late 1870s, two factors drastically altered the historic landscape of North-central Texas. The first of these was barbed wire. In 1875, Henry B. Sanborn, a regional sales agent for Joseph Glidden's Bar Fence Company of DeKalb, Illinois, traveled to Texas. That autumn, he chose Gainesville as one of his initial distribution points for the ...
Texas Frontier Trails Western Heritage Park [3] Normangee State Park: 1933: 1950s: Leon: Normangee City Park [5] Palisades State Park: 1933: 1939: Randall: Starlight Canyon Bed & Breakfast [6] Stephenville State Park: 1933: 1948: Erath: Garner Park Ranch [3] Texas Canyons State Park: 1933: 1944: Brewster: Big Bend National Park [6] Renamed Big ...