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| Gonzales County, named for the capital of
Green DeWitt's colony, was established in 1836 and organized in 1837
as one of the original counties in the Republic of Texas. After
the annexation of Texas to the United States in 1845, portions of
Gonzales County were detached to form what are now the counties of
Caldwell, Comal, DeWitt, Fayette, Guadalupe, Jackson, Lavaca, and
Victoria. |
| On December 14, 1837, the first Gonzales county court
was organized, with B. D. McClure as chief justice. The settlers of
DeWitt's colony obtained land grants and patents in the fertile
blackland valleys of the Guadalupe and San Marcos rivers and along the
major creeks, including Plum Creek (now in Caldwell County), Rocky
Creek (now in Lavaca County), Peach Creek (named Arroyo de los
Theodolites before Anglo settlement), Sandy Fork, and Sandies and Salt
creeks. |
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| This county is west of the Colorado, and was
settled in the early history of Texas. There are extensive deposits of
iron and coal in this county. The distance from Gonzales to Port
Lavacca is 75 miles. The lands of this county are fertile and easily
cultivated. A recent writer says of the land on Peach Creek, in
that county: — "It is as fertile as the river valleys, and has
the immense advantage of sustaining drought with less injury to
the crops; last year (1856), notwithstanding the unprecedented
drought, the yield of corn averaged from twenty to forty
bushels. The Scenery is beautiful, of the description known as
rolling prairies. The long slopes are covered with thick, soft grass,
and crowned with groves of noble live oaks and other trees;
building-stone is found in abundance throughout the county, and the
numerous little brooks of clear running water afford every advantage
for stock. Sheep are raised in considerable numbers, and are healthy
and very profitable. Hogs, likewise, are abundant and thrifty, and
increase rapidly. This desirable region is rapidly filling up with
intelligent and substantial men; people of means, liberality, and
enterprise, who will take much interest in building up churches and
schools, to meet the increasing necessities of the country. It will be
well for emigrants with "capital to take a look at this
county. BY D. E. E. BRAMAN,1857, submitted by
Candi H |
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Waelder |
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