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"A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of families] except Africans and their descendants and Indians living in Texas ...
This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Young County, Texas. There are five properties listed on the National Register in the county. These include two National Historic Landmarks one of which is also a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark (RTHL) while containing an additional RTHL ...
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Texas, listed by county. This may include disincorporated communities, towns with no incorporated status, ghost towns , or census-designated places .
The site was first settled in 1871 by brothers Gustavus A. and Edwin S. Graham, primary shareholders in the Texas Emigration and Land Company of Louisville, Kentucky.The brothers moved to Texas after the Civil War, and after buying 125,000 acres (510 km 2) in then-vast Young County, helped to revitalize the area, the population of which had become badly depleted during the war.
Young County: 503: Graham: 1856: Bosque County and Fannin County: William Cocke Young, early Texas settler, attorney, sheriff, and United States Marshal: 18,124: 922 sq mi (2,388 km 2) Zapata County: 505: Zapata: 1858: Starr County and Webb County: José Antonio Zapata, a local rancher and colonel of the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande ...
The county was included in the 1841 Republic of Texas empresario Peters Colony land grant. [17] The Young County portion of the grant remained unsettled until the 1850s. In 1851, Bvt. Brig. Gen. William G. Belknap founded the United States Army Fort Belknap. [18] The fort was surrendered to the Confederacy in 1861, and reoccupied by federal ...