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The Fifth Congress established the new county on December 17, 1840, and named it after Mirabeau B. Lamar, [5] who was the first vice president and the second president of the Republic of Texas. Paris, Texas in 1885. Lamar County was one of the 18 Texas counties that voted against secession on February 23, 1861. [6]
Lamar County (/ l ə ˈ m ɑː r /) is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas, in the Northeast Texas region. As of the 2020 census, its population was 50,088. [1] Its county seat is Paris. [2] The county was formed by the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 17, 1840, and organized the next year.
The paper traces its roots to The North Texan, founded in 1869 by Addison Harvey Boyd (1835–1984), and a newspaper published by his younger brother, Austin Pollard Boyd (1843–1902). The younger Boyd bought the North Texan and merged the publications, running a daily newspaper known as the Paris Morning News until his death in 1902.
St. Joseph (Founded by Joseph Robidoux IV, Missouri-born fur trader of French Canadian descent who named the city after himself) St. Louis (named after King Louis IX, later canonized as Saint Louis) St. Louis County; Ste. Genevieve (named after Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris) Ste. Genevieve County (named after Genevieve, the patron saint ...
Paris, Texas is a 1984 neo-Western drama road film directed by Wim Wenders, co-written by Sam Shepard and L. M. Kit Carson, and produced by Don Guest.It stars Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, and Hunter Carson.
In Texas, Buckner led the Paris Baptist Church for fourteen years. [2] [1] He also founded a newspaper, the Religious Messenger, later renamed Texas Baptist (and subsequently Texas Baptist and Herald), which he edited until 1883. [2] [1] In 1875, Buckner moved to Dallas to establish a Baptist orphanage. [2]
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520.While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18]
The French colonization of Texas started when Robert Cavelier de La Salle intended to found the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but inaccurate maps and navigational errors caused his ships to anchor instead 400 miles (640 km) to the west, off the coast of Texas. The colony survived until 1688.