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Brazosport is an unincorporated community in Brazoria County, Texas, United States. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas , the community had a population of 61,198 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
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 former Angleton Times office became the Angleton office of the Brazosport Facts. In 2004 The Facts had an Angleton circulation of 4,000 while the Angleton Times had 1,100 subscribers; there were 730 people/entities who/which subscribed to both newspapers. [6] The newspaper led the move to consolidate the town of Velasco into Freeport in 1957.
In 2013, CHI St. Luke's Health–Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center became the first hospital in the state of Texas to earn 3 Beacon Awards for Excellence from the AACN. [45] Also in regards to its nursing program, the hospital received ANCC Magnet® Designation for Nursing Excellence four times in 2001, 2005, 2009, and 2014.
Brazoria County takes its name from the Brazos River, which flows through it. Anglo-Texas began in Brazoria County when the first of Stephen F. Austin's authorized 300 American settlers arrived at the mouth of the Brazos in 1821. Many of the events leading to the Texas Revolution developed in Brazoria County. In 1832, Brazoria was organized as ...
Levi Jordan (1793–1873), a Georgia-born planter, traveled in 1848 to Brazoria County, Texas, bringing with him twelve enslaved Black people. [3] Previously, Jordan had owned adjoining plantations on the Louisiana-Arkansas border (Union County, Arkansas) with his son-in-law, James Campbell McNeill, [2] however he was not as successful as he wanted to be.
He also served on the Board of Regents of the University of Texas from 1991 to 1997. [4] In 2012, the Dallas Independent School District named the newly-built Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Middle School in his honor. [5] Pastor Holmes is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and is an active lifetime member of the NAACP.
Fort Saint-Louis, Texas, was founded in 1685 by French explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle and members of his expedition, including Jesuit missionary Zenobius Membre, on the banks of Garcitas Creek, a few kilometers inland from the mouth of the Lavaca River.