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Handbook of Texas Online: Edna
(Edna)
format this article to print EDNA, TEXAS. Edna, the county seat of Jackson County, was established in 1882 when the New York, Texas and Mexican Railway line was built from Rosenberg to Victoria ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Edroy
(Edroy)
format this article to print EDROY, TEXAS. Edroy is on Interstate Highway 37 in southwest San Patricio County. It was planned in 1913 by Ed Cubage and Roy Miller after the San Antonio, Uvalde and ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: El Campo
(El Campo)
format this article to print EL CAMPO, TEXAS. El Campo is on U.S. Highway 59 and State Highway 71, thirteen miles southwest of Wharton in south central Wharton County. The Lower Colorado River ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: El Lago
(El Lago)
format this article to print EL LAGO, TEXAS. El Lago is on Taylor Lake, Clear Lake, and NASA Parkway (also called NASA Road 1 and Farm Road 528) in southeastern Harris County. The community was ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Francitas
(Francitas)
format this article to print FRANCITAS, TEXAS. Francitas is on Farm Road 616 and the Missouri Pacific line in southeastern Jackson County. A small colony of French families settled in the area ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Freeport
(Freeport)
format this article to print FREEPORT, TEXAS (Brazoria County). Freeport, on the Missouri Pacific tracks some sixteen miles south of Angleton in southern Brazoria County, is a deepwater port three ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Fresno
(Fresno)
format this article to print FRESNO, TEXAS (Fort Bend County). Fresno is on Farm Road 521 twenty miles northeast of Richmond in northeastern Fort Bend County. A settler from Fresno, California, ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Friendswood
(Friendswood)
format this article to print FRIENDSWOOD, TEXAS. Friendswood is an incorporated residential community on Farm Road 518 twenty-seven miles northwest of Galveston and twenty miles south of Houston ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Fulshear
(Fulshear)
format this article to print FULSHEAR, TEXAS. Fulshear, at the junction of Farm roads 359 and 1093, in northern Fort Bend County, developed around the plantation of Churchill Fulshear, qv one of ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Fulton
(Fulton)
format this article to print FULTON, TEXAS. Fulton is on State Highway 35 and Aransas Bay just north of Rockport in central Aransas County. It was founded in 1866 and named for George Ware Fulton, ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Ganado
(Ganado)
format this article to print GANADO, TEXAS. Ganado, on U.S Highway 59 nine miles east of Edna, is the second largest town in Jackson County. Its position on the Southern Pacific Railroad made it a ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Gilchrist
(Gilchrist)
format this article to print GILCHRIST, TEXAS. Gilchrist is a resort and residential community on State Highway 87 on Bolivar Peninsula some seventeen miles east of Boli var Point in Galveston ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Glen Flora
(Glen Flora)
format this article to print GLEN FLORA, TEXAS. Glen Flora is at the junction of Farm Roads 102 and 960, on the east bank of the Colorado River six miles northwest of Wharton in Wharton County. ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Gregory
(Gregory)
format this article to print GREGORY, TEXAS. Gregory is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 181 and State highways 35 and 361, three miles northeast of Portland in southeastern San Patricio ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Hamshire
(Hamshire)
format this article to print HAMSHIRE, TEXAS. Hamshire is on State Highway 124 twenty miles southwest of Beaumont in western Jefferson County. It was probably named for Lovan Hamshire, an area ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Hankamer
(Hankamer)
format this article to print HANKAMER, TEXAS. Hankamer is at the junction of State Highway 61 and Farm Road 1663, forty miles southwest of Beaumont in northern Chambers County. It was named for ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Hedwig Village
(Hedwig Village)
format this article to print HEDWIG VILLAGE, TEXAS. Hedwig Village, south of Interstate Highway 10 on the western edge of Houston, encompasses about a square mile an d is among the smallest ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: High Island
(High Island)
format this article to print HIGH ISLAND, TEXAS. High Island is on a tall salt dome on Bolivar Peninsula qv at the extreme eastern end of Galveston County. Its thirty-eight-foot rise above sea ...
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Handbook Of Texas Online: Hitchcock
(Hitchcock)
format this article to print HITCHCOCK, TEXAS. Hitchcock, also known as Hitchcock's and as Highland, is an incorporated community fourteen miles northwest of Galveston on State Highway 6, Farm ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Holiday Lakes
(Holiday Lakes)
format this article to print HOLIDAY LAKES, TEXAS. Holiday Lakes, on Oyster Creek four miles northwest of Angleton in west central Brazoria County, developed around Lake Alaska, Lake Yukon, Timber ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Indianola
(Indianola)
format this article to print INDIANOLA, TEXAS. The port of Indianola, on Matagorda Bay in Calhoun County, was founded in August 1846 as Indian Point by Sam Addison Whiteqv and William M. Cook. In ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Indianola Hurricanes
(Indianola)
format this article to print INDIANOLA HURRICANES. The first of the two great Indianola hurricanes that resulted in the demise of the town began on September 15, 1875, when Indianola was crammed ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Inez
(Inez)
format this article to print INEZ, TEXAS. Inez is on U.S. Highway 59 fifteen miles northeast of Victoria near the Jackson county line in Victoria County. The townsite wa s originally called ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Ingleside
(Ingleside)
format this article to print INGLESIDE, TEXAS (San Patricio County). Ingleside is on Corpus Christi Bay on the jutting arm of land known as Ingleside Point at the eastern tip of San Patricio ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Iowa Colony
(Iowa Colony)
format this article to print IOWA COLONY, TEXAS (Brazoria County). Iowa Colony is on State Highway 288 south of Manvel in northern Brazoria County. It was founded in 1908 by the Immigration Land ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Jacinto City
(Jacinto City)
format this article to print JACINTO CITY, TEXAS. Jacinto City is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 90 and Interstate highways 10 and 610, on the Missouri Pacific Railroad near the San Jacinto ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Jersey Village
(Jersey Village)
format this article to print JERSEY VILLAGE, TEXAS. Jersey Village, an incorporated suburb of Houston, is on Farm Road 529, U.S. Highway 290, and the Southern Pacific lin e, in west central Harris ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Jones Creek
(Jones Creek)
format this article to print JONES CREEK, TEXAS (Brazoria County). Jones Creek is on State Highway 36 and the Gulf Prairie twelve miles southwest of Angleton in southwestern Brazoria County. The ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Juliff
(Juliff)
format this article to print JULIFF, TEXAS. Juliff is on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Farm Road 521, and the Brazos River, twenty miles east of Richmond in easter n Fort Bend County. The area ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Kendleton
(Kendleton)
format this article to print KENDLETON, TEXAS. Kendleton is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 59 and Farm Road 2919, fourteen miles southwest of Rosenberg in western Fort Bend County. It was ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Klein, TX
(Klein)
format this article to print KLEIN, TEXAS. In the 1840s German immigrants established an agricultural community called Big Cypress on Cypress Creek in Harris County. Ada m Klein and his wife, ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Manvel, TX
(Manvel)
format this article to print MANVEL, TEXAS. Manvel is at the intersection of State highways 6 and 288 and Farm Road 1128, in northern Brazoria County. It was originally n amed Pomona; however, ...
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/MM/hgm2.html
Handbook of Texas Online: Mont Belvieu
(Mont Belvieu)
format this article to print MONT BELVIEU, TEXAS. Mont Belvieu is at the intersection of State Highway 146 and Farm Road 1942, slightly north of Interstate Highway 10 and thirty-two miles east of ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Newgulf
(Newgulf)
format this article to print NEWGULF, TEXAS. Newgulf (New Gulf) is on top of the Boling Dome, qv reputed to be the largest known inland deposit of sulfur in the world, in the extreme eastern ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: North Houston
(North Houston)
format this article to print NORTH HOUSTON, TEXAS. North Houston was on the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad ten miles northwest of Houston in central Harris County. It grew up after a hurricane ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Odem
(Odem)
format this article to print ODEM, TEXAS. Odem is at the intersection of two rail lines twenty miles from Corpus Christi in southwestern San Patricio County. The St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Old Ocean
(Old Ocean)
format this article to print OLD OCEAN, TEXAS. Old Ocean is on State highways 35 and 524 five miles northwest of Sweeny in southwestern Brazoria County. The site was loc ated on or near the land ...
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/OO/hlo12.html
Handbook of Texas Online: Old River-Winfree
(Old River-Winfree)
format this article to print OLD RIVER-WINFREE, TEXAS. Old River-Winfree, formerly known as Winfree and also referred to as Old River Winfree's, is at the junction of Fa rm roads 565 and 1409, ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Orange County
(Orange County)
format this article to print ORANGE COUNTY. Orange County (K-23) is in the Central Prairie region of southeastern Texas. The Sabine River on the east forms a natural bord er between it and the ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Orangefield
(Orangefield)
format this article to print ORANGEFIELD, TEXAS. Orangefield is at the junction of Farm roads 105 and 408, twenty miles east of Beaumont in south central Orange County. It developed around the ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Palm Valley
(Palm Valley)
format this article to print PALM VALLEY, TEXAS (Cameron County). Palm Valley is on Farm roads 2994 and 3195, on the western end of the Harlingen city limits in northwes tern Cameron County. The ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Point Comfort
(Point Comfort)
format this article to print POINT COMFORT, TEXAS. Point Comfort, at the junction of Farm Road 1593 and State Highway 35, two miles east of Port Lavaca across Lavaca Bay in Calhoun County, was ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Port Bolivar
(Port Bolivar)
format this article to print PORT BOLIVAR, TEXAS. Port Bolivar is a community at the western tip of Bolivar Peninsula, qv a short ferry ride across the body of water known as Bolivar Roadsqv from ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Port Isabel
(Port Isabel)
format this article to print PORT ISABEL, TEXAS. Port Isabel is on the point where Texas Highway 100 meets the Laguna Madre in southeastern Cameron County, sixteen miles northeast of ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Port Neches
(Port Neches)
format this article to print PORT NECHES, TEXAS. Port Neches, once known as Grigsby's (or Grigsby) Bluff, is located in eastern Jefferson County on Farm roads 365 and 366 and State Highway 347, ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Primera
(Primera)
format this article to print PRIMERA, TEXAS. Primera is off State Highway 107 and Farm Road 2994, west of Harlingen in northwestern Cameron County. The site was settled during the early 1900s ...
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/PP/hjp14.html
Handbook of Texas Online: Refugio
(Refugio)
format this article to print REFUGIO, TEXAS. Refugio, the county seat of Refugio County, is on the north bank of the Mission River at the intersection of U.S. highways 18 3 and 77 and State ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Riviera
(Riviera)
format this article to print RIVIERA, TEXAS. Riviera is on U.S. Highway 77 fifteen miles south of Kingsville in Kleberg County. It was founded by Theodore F. Koch, qv a land promoter from St. ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Rose City
(Rose City)
format this article to print ROSE CITY, TEXAS. Rose City is on Interstate Highway 10/U.S. Highway 90 three miles east of Beaumont in western Orange County. The town plat was filed by the East ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Rosenberg
(Rosenberg)
format this article to print ROSENBERG, TEXAS. Rosenberg is on U.S. Highway 59 twenty-eight miles southwest of downtown Houston in central Fort Bend County. The area was originally settled by ...
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