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There are 13 properties listed on the National Register in the county. Five properties are designated as Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks including one that is also a State Antiquities Landmark. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024. [1]
Beeville is a city in Bee County, Texas, United States. Its population of 13,543 at the 2020 census makes it the 207th-largest city in Texas. [6] It is the county seat of Bee County [7] and home to the main campus of Coastal Bend College. The area around the city contains three prisons operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
James Frank Dobie was born on a ranch in Live Oak County, Texas, and was the eldest of six children. [1] [2] [3] When he was young, his father Richard read to him from the Bible and his mother Ella read to him from books such as Ivanhoe and Pilgrim's Progress.
Bee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in South Texas and its county seat is Beeville. [1] As of the 2020 census, its population was 31,047. [2] The Beeville, TX micropolitan statistical area includes all of Bee County. The county was founded December 8, 1857, and organized the next year. [3]
The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Beeville, Texas. Pages in category "People from Beeville, Texas" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The Bee County Courthouse, at 105 W. Corpus Christi St. in Beeville, Texas, United States, was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1] It was designed by architect William C. Stephenson in Beaux Arts style. [1]
Naval Air Station Chase Field is a former naval air station located in unincorporated Bee County, Texas, near Beeville. [1] It was named for Lieutenant Commander Nathan Brown Chase, [2] [3] Naval Aviator #37, who died in 1925 while developing carrier landing techniques for the U.S. Navy. [4]
It is a 22-room, 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2) mansion located in Berclair, Texas (between Goliad and Beeville, Texas). It is considered the largest steel strand house in the US, constructed with over 60 tons of concrete and steel. [1] The mansion was built by Etta Terrell and she resided there with her four sisters until her death. [2]