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Houston County Courier is a newspaper based out of Crockett, Texas. It is a division of East Texas News [ 2 ] and a publication of Polk County Publishing Company. [ 3 ]
This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Houston County, Texas. There are seven properties listed on the National Register in the county. Three properties are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks including one that is also a State Antiquities Landmark.
Houston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 22,066. [1] Its county seat is Crockett. [2] Houston County was one of 46 entirely dry counties in the state of Texas, until voters in a November 2007 special election legalized the sale of alcohol in the county.
Several African-American-owned newspapers are published in Houston. Allan Turner of the Houston Chronicle said that the papers "are both journalistic throwbacks — papers whose content directly reflects their owners' views — and cutting-edge, hyper-local publications targeting the concerns of the city's roughly half-million African-Americans."
Houston County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Crockett, Texas, United States. Built in 1939, it is Houston County's fifth courthouse. It was designed in the Moderne architectural style by Houston architect Blum E. Hester. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010 for its historical and architectural ...
Livelyville is a rural unincorporated community four miles from Grapeland in Houston County, Texas, United States. It was founded circa 1850 by Thomas Lively, who later donated land for a cemetery. The town had a school from the 1870s until 1901. A historical marker was placed at the site of the town's cemetery in 1982. [1]
Mar. 24—Storms tore through Texas Monday night, leaving heavy damage in nearby Houston County. According to Josh Lichter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Houston, an EF 2 ...
June 1, 1987 - The former Shamrock Hilton hotel is demolished as part of the Texas Medical Center expansion efforts despite protests from historical preservationists. 1989 Outer Belt Drive (a major thoroughfare that serves Hermann Park and Ben Taub Hospital in the Texas Medical Center ) is renamed North MacGregor Way; a section of North ...