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Austin County
Austin County is a rural, agricultural dominated county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,167. Its seat is Bellville. The county and region was settled primarily by German emigrants in the 1800s. Austin County is included in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land Metropolitan Statistical Area. Austin County is not to be confused with the city of Austin, the state capital city that lies in Travis County, about 110 miles to the northwest. History In 1836, the Texas Legislature established Austin County, naming it for Stephen F. Austin, who facilitated Texas' Anglo-American colonization. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.5%) is covered by water. Adjacent counties * Washington County (north) * Waller County (east) * Fort Bend County (southeast) * Wharton County (south) * Colorado County (west) * Fayette County (northwest) Communities Cities * Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen F
Stephen or Steven is a common English given name, first name. It is particularly significant to Christianity, Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or "protomartyr") of the Christian Church. In English, Stephen is most commonly pronounced as ' (). The name, in both the forms Stephen and Steven, is often shortened to Steve or Stevie (given name), Stevie. The spelling as Stephen can also be pronounced which is from the Greek original version, Stephanos. In English, the female version of the name is Stephanie. Many surnames are derived from the first name, including Template:Stephen-surname, Stephens, Stevens, Stephenson, and Stevenson, all of which mean "Stephen's (son)". In modern times the name has sometimes been given with intentionally non-standard spelling, such as Stevan or Stevon. A common variant of the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sealy, Texas
Sealy is a city in Austin County in southeastern Texas, United States. The population was 6,839 at the 2020 census. Sealy is located west of the downtown Houston area, on the most eastern part of the Texas-German belt region, an area settled by German emigrants. History San Felipe, Texas, sold part of its original township to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad to create Sealy in 1879. Sealy gets its name after business tycoon and majority stock holder of the GCSF RR, George Sealy of Galveston. In 1881, Daniel Haynes, a cotton gin builder, filled a request for a cotton-filled mattress which started a company. He named this the Sealy Mattress Company after the town. Business grew exponentially, which led to more innovation and several patents, such as a machine that compressed cotton. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, of it is land and is water. Sealy is west of Downtown Houston. Demographics As of the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelsonville, Texas
Nelsonville is an unincorporated community in Austin County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 110 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. History Nelsonville was settled in the 1850s, with one being Edward Daughtry in 1855; it was named for D. D. Nelson, who opened a store in the community after the Civil War ended. Isaac Lewis also managed a store, sawmill, gristmill and cotton gin at the same time. The town's first settlers were primarily Bohemian immigrants who arrived in the late 1860s to the early 1870s and bought land grants. Nelsonville's post office opened in 1872; postmaster R. W. Thompson also served as the town physician. The post office was closed in 1909. The community extended northwest through a watershed that separated the drainage of the east and west forks of Mill Creek toward Industry. It also had a church, three steam-powered mills and gins, and 100 residents. It went up to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millheim, Texas
Millheim is an unincorporated community in Austin County, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, its population was 150 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. History Millheim was first settled when a mill was built on Clear Creek, a tributary of Mill Creek, in 1845. The first settlers were German immigrants who moved through the Mill Creek Valley southeast from Cat Spring. It received the name Millheim when the Engelking and Noltke general store held a meeting there in the 1850s. Wilhelm Schneider, an immigrant from the Palatinate region suggested the name Muelheim but was later anglicized to its current spelling, Millheim. A singing society was organized in the community in 1856. A post office was established at Millheim in 1878 and remained in operation until 1915 when mail was routed through Peters. The community had 100 residents, as well as a brewery, a gin, a gristmill, a sawmill, and several stores in 1885. Developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenney, Texas
Kenney (also Kinney) is an unincorporated community in northern Austin County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 200 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. History The area around Kenney was first settled in the 1820s with German immigrants arriving in the 1830s through 1900, but the community itself was not started until 1880 when a station on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway between Brenham and Bellville and a post office was established. The community was originally named Thompson for its first postmaster JE Thompson. After four years under that name, the community was renamed Kenneyville in 1884 in honor of evangelist John Wesley Kenney; the name was shortened to Kenney in 1892. The community thrived in 1885 with a steam-powered gristmill and cotton gin, three churches, several businesses, and 150 residents. Its population shrank to 75 in 1890. The community's first hotel was estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frydek, Texas
Frydek ( ) is an unincorporated community in southeastern Austin County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 150 from 1964 through 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Geography Frydek is situated on the west bank of the Brazos River on FM 1458 about south of San Felipe and east of Sealy. It is also located southeast of the county seat of Bellville. History The area was first settled when some members of the Old Three Hundred received land grants in the 1820s. Czechs set up the community of Frydek in 1895 on a league of land that was originally granted to Stephen F. Austin in 1831. The settlement was probably named after the town of Frýdek in what is now the Czech Republic. It soon became a market for farmers and ranchers and had a post office in 1901–1906. Frydek had four commercial establishments in 1931 as well as a church that remained in operation in 1999. The population was 25 in 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cochran, Texas
Cochran is an unincorporated community in Austin County, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, its population was 116 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. History The area of Austin County on the west bank of the Brazos River was first settled in the 1820s, but the Cochran community itself was not founded until around 1850. It was named for James Cochran, who was given a land grant near the location where Cochran currently stands today. A gin was established by William Lange and a general store was established by LT Henton when the community first began to be settled. A post office was established at Cochran in 1884 and remained in operation until 1908. It received its mail service from nearby Bellville soon after. A chapter of the Junior Red Cross was organized in 1918. It had four businesses and 25 residents in 1933. It went up to 40 in 1952 but had only two businesses. Oilfields were also developed near the community in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cat Spring, Texas
Cat Spring is an unincorporated community in southern Austin County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, it had a population of 76 in 2000. Cat Spring was one of the first German/American settlements in Texas, and the location of Texas' first agricultural society. History Cat Spring was founded by immigrants from Oldenburg and Westphalia that was led by Ludwig Anton Siegmund von Roeder and Robert J. Kleberg in 1834, in which many of them were attracted to the area and the state by letters sent from Friedrich Ernst after he bought a plot of land in the Mill Creek Valley in 1831 and named for a nearby spring near the San Bernard River where a puma was killed by one of the German immigrants. The first Protestant church was organized in the community sometime between 1840-and 1844 by Louis C. Ervendberg. The community was the location of Texas' first agricultural society (Cat Spring Agricultural Society) in 1856. A post office was established at Cat Spring in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burleigh, Texas
Burleigh is an unincorporated community in northeast Austin County, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, its population was 69 from 1972 through 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Geography Burleigh is situated a distance of southeast of Bellville where eastbound FM 529 intersects with northbound FM 331. From Burleigh, FM 529 goes east to link with State Highway 6 in the Houston area. FM 331 connects with State Highway 36, to the south. For at Burleigh, FM 331 shares the right-of-way with FM 529, then it heads north before state maintenance ends at Oil Field Road. The Brazos River is east on FM 529, which is also called Crump Ferry Road. Burleigh is also located southeast of Brenham. History The eastern part of Austin County was first settled in the 1820s, but the community itself did not appear until the late 19th century. A post office began operating out of a general store in Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckhorn, Austin County, Texas
Buckhorn is an unincorporated community in Austin County, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, its population was 20 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. History The area in what is now known as Buckhorn today was first settled in the 1830s. The community was founded in 1873 when a cotton gin and gristmill were built on the banks of a Caney Creek tributary by HS Smith. A post office was established at Buckhorn in 1874 and remained in operation until 1901. N. Cochran was the first postmaster. It had several churches and a stagecoach that bypassed the town semiweekly toward Bellville in 1880. It had a population of 200 in 1885. This dropped below 100 by 1910 and continued to plunge to 10 by 1933. It grew to 50 residents and had two businesses in 1939. Its population went down to 20 from 1974 through 2000. Two churches named Samuel and Washam Chapels were in Buckhorn in the late 1980s. Geography Buckhorn is located on Farm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleiblerville, Texas
Bleiblerville is an unincorporated community in northern Austin County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, its population was 71 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. History Bleiblerville was named for Robert Bleibler, a Swiss immigrant, who ran the general store, post office, and saloon. Bleibler opened the general store in the area in the late 1880s. The community grew rapidly with the influx of many German immigrants in the late nineteenth century, and its post office was established in 1891. The community expanded in the 1960s with the increase of oil drilling in the community, in which it had 225 residents in 1966, but has since declined to 71 in 1972 and remained at that level through 2000. Theodore Wehring operated a cotton gin in the community in 1900. The American Red Cross had a chapter in the community during World War I that included ten black residents in its roster of 68 members. It had a population of 101 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Felipe, Texas
San Felipe ( ), also known as San Felipe de Austin, is a town in Austin County, Texas, United States. The town was the social, economic, and political center of the early Stephen F. Austin colony. The population was 747 at the 2010 census. History In 1823, John McFarland operated a ferry on the Brazos River near this location. In the fall of the same year, the site was chosen by Stephen F. Austin, with the help of Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, to be the main site in Texas for American colonization. Founded in 1824 as San Felipe de Austin, the town served as the capital of Stephen F. Austin's first colony and the founding site of the Texas Rangers. James (Jack) Cummins was appointed as the first ''alcalde'' or mayor. By 1828, San Felipe had been surveyed, with ''Calle Commercio'' laid out as the main commercial street. Austin and his secretary, Samuel May Williams, both resided in log cabins on the square. There were about 30 buildings, and at least one of these was a woo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
