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Austin County and Grimes County: Edwin Waller (1800–1881), a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the first mayor of Austin, Texas: 63,553: 514 sq mi (1,331 km 2) Ward County: 475: Monahans: 1887: Tom Green County: Thomas William Ward, a commissioner for the General Land Office of Texas and mayor of Austin, Texas 10,966: 836 sq ...
A new county was also established the following year, of which Austin would be the seat; the county was named Travis County, after William B. Travis. Though the Republic's capital moved briefly back to Houston during the events surrounding the Texas Archive War , by 1845 Austin was again the capital, and it became the capital of the new State ...
Austin, Travis County and Williamson County have been the site of human habitation since at least 9200 BC. The area's earliest known inhabitants lived during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age) and are linked to the Clovis culture around 9200 BC (over 11,200 years ago), based on evidence found throughout the area and documented at the much-studied Gault Site, midway between Georgetown and Fort Cavazos.
Location of Austin County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Austin County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Austin County, Texas. There are one district and nine individual properties listed on the ...
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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. [1] [2] Its seat is Bellville. [3] The county and region was settled primarily by German emigrants in the 1800s. [4] Austin County is included in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land Metropolitan Statistical ...