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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]
The Fort Bend County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located in Richmond, Texas, United States. It was built in 1908 by Charles Henry Page, who also designed several other Texas courthouses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in 1980 and designated a Texas State Antiquities ...
Quail Valley is located at 29°34′19″N 95°32′44″W (29.571964, -95.545521), in the central part of Missouri City, Texas . As of 2007 the original portion of Quail Valley has over 3,000 houses, and the community has more than 15 subdivisions. The Quail Valley area, including the original subdivision and other surrounding communities with ...
April 29, 2024 at 4:16 PM. FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas - Fort Bend County residents who get a call from the sheriff's office might want to think twice about who's on the line. The sheriff is warning ...
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Fort Bend County, Texas. There are one district and seven individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. Three of the individually listed properties are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks including one ...
Cinco Ranch, Texas. / 29.74139°N 95.75833°W / 29.74139; -95.75833. Cinco Ranch is a census-designated place and master-planned community located in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city of Houston within Fort Bend and Harris counties in the U.S. state of Texas.
Aaron Smith stands in the doorway of his family's former rental home at 214 E. Irvington Ave. in South Bend. The family was evicted this November after finding out they'd fallen victim to a rental ...
Fort Bend was a blockhouse built in a large bend of the Brazos River in what is now Fort Bend County, Texas, to provide protection against Indian raids. It was erected in November 1822 by several members of Stephen F. Austin 's Old Three Hundred , including William W. Little, Joseph Polley, William Smithers [Smeathers], Charles Beard, Henry ...