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La Grange (/ l ə ˈ ɡ r eɪ n dʒ / lə GRAYNJ) is a city in Fayette County, Texas, United States, near the Colorado River. La Grange is in the center of the Texas-German belt. The population was 4,391 at the 2020 census, [4] and in 2018 the estimated population was 4,632. [5] La Grange is the county seat of Fayette County. [6]
Fayette Regional Air Center covers an area of 195 acres (79 ha) which contains one runway designated 16/34 with a 5,001 x 75 ft (1,524 x 23 m) asphalt surface. For the 12-month period ending June 5, 2007, the airport had 9,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 24 per day.
The Fayette County Courthouse and the Fayette County Jail are two historic buildings in La Grange, Texas. The courthouse was designed by James Riely Gordon and built in 1891 by Martin, Byrne and Johnston. [3] [4] The jail was built earlier in 1881 by Fritz Schulte and designed by John Andrewartha and James Wahrenberger. [5]
The Fayette County Courthouse Square Historic District in La Grange, Texas is a historic district roughly bounded by Main, Lafayette, Franklin, Colorado, Jefferson, Washington, and Crockett Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 16, 2001.
English: Fayette County Courthouse and Jail, Courthouse Sq. and 104 Main St. La Grange This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .
Fayette County was established in 1837 from land given by Bastrop and Colorado Counties. It is named for the Marquis de Lafayette, a French nobleman who became an American Revolutionary War hero.
The Chicken Ranch was an illegal brothel in the U.S. state of Texas that operated from 1905 until 1973 in Fayette County, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of downtown La Grange The business was notably dramatized in the 1978 Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas , adapted into a 1982 film of the same name .
They are located at 29.888° -96.876°, just off U.S. Route 77, south of La Grange, Texas. The sites sit on a sandstone bluff 200 feet above the Colorado River . Monument Hill is a memorial to the men who died in the Dawson Massacre and in the Black Bean Episode of the ill-fated Mier Expedition .