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Starting in 2010, the Danny Dietz Memorial Day Classic is a fundraiser / rodeo event held the weekend of Memorial Day at the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds in Rosenberg, Texas. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] For the 2013 film Lone Survivor , which covered the events of Operation Red Wings , Dietz was portrayed by actor Emile Hirsch .
In 1957–58, Southern Newspapers bought the papers, along with the Fort Bend Reporter (est. circa 1921) and merged them to form the twice-weekly Herald-Coaster. It became a five-day newspaper in 1967 and was bought by Bill Hartman's newspaper company in 1974. The newspaper added a Friday edition in 1978.
Chuck Woolery, the original host of Wheel of Fortune, has died.He was 83. Woolery died at his home in Texas with his wife present, his friend and Blunt Force Truth podcast co-host Mark Young ...
Following a fatal crash in Bibb County over the weekend, a family friend of the victim has started a GoFundMe page seeking to raise money for funeral expenses.. The GoFundMe page said the family ...
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The John M. and Lottie D. Moore House is at 406 S. Fifth Street, in Richmond, Texas, United States.It is currently part of the Fort Bend Museum complex. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fort Bend County, Texas in 2001, and became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1962.
Fort Bend County Libraries operates the George Memorial Library, the central library and the site of the administrative offices of the library system, located along Farm to Market Road 762. [21] Richmond also has the Fort Bend County Law Library. [22] The Main Library moved from Rosenberg to its current location in Richmond in 1986.
Fort Bend County was created from parts of Austin, Harris, and Brazoria Counties in 1838. Fort Bend developed a plantation economy based on cotton as the commodity crop. Planters had numerous African-American slaves as laborers. By the 1850s, Fort Bend was one of six majority-black counties in Texas. [7]