Independence, Texas
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Independence is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 140 in 2000. It is located about an hour northwest of the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
History
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Milam Lodge No. 11, of the Grand Lodge of Texas, was located in the community.[2] Seward Plantation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
A tornado hit Independence in December 1983. On May 26, 2016, an EF0 tornado struck Independence, in which numerous trees were downed in a convergent pattern.[3]
Geography
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Education
Today, the community is served by the Brenham Independent School District.
Notable people
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- George Washington Baines, a co-founder and president of Baylor; great-grandfather of Lyndon B. Johnson
- Jerome B. Robertson
- William Bizzell
- Sam Houston Jr.
- Lawrence Sullivan Ross, 19th Governor of Texas, attended Baylor University.[4][5]
- Andrew Jackson Houston, son of Sam and Margaret Lea Houston and politician.[6]
- George W. Littlefield, Confederate Army soldier, attended Baylor University.
- Thomas Chilton, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, co-founded Baylor University.
- Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor is buried in the community's cemetery.
- Martin Varner, Old Three Hundred member[7]
- William Carey Crane, Baptist minister who preached at Independence Baptist Church from 1864 to 1867 and 1869 to 1884.[8]
- Hosea Garrett, clergyman and philanthropist, who served as President Pro tempore at Baylor.[9]
- Henry Arthur McArdle, painter[10]
- Hugh Wilson, Presbyterian minister, who served as an administrator at Independence Female College.[11]
- Royall T. Wheeler, judge who became Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.[12]
- Edward Taylor, brother of Horace D. Taylor, built a store in Independence in 1838.[13]
- Nancy Moffette Lea, mother of Margaret Lea Houston, moved here in 1852.[14]
- Antoinette Power Houston Bringhurst, the fifth child of Houston and Lea, got her education at Baylor Female College.[15]
- George Wythe Baylor, Confederate soldier.[16]
- Henry Weidner Baylor, physician and Texas Ranger.
In popular culture
American western TV series Walker: Independence takes place in Independence.[17]
Gallery
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Site of Home of General Sam Houston and Family
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Original Site of Baylor University
References
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- ↑ Directory of Constituent Lodges in Texas. (2005–2006) Waco, Tx: The Grand Lodge of Texas.
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- ↑ Texas Heritage Foundation, Texas Heritage, Volume 1, 1959, page 100
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- ↑ Louise Kelly, "WILSON, HUGH," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwi52), accessed June 15, 2014. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Further reading
- B. D. Augustin, "Independence: The Athens of Early Texas," Texas Highways, March 1984.
- T. Lindsay Baker, Ghost Towns of Texas, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.
- Lois Smith Murray, Baylor at Independence, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 1972.
- Gracey Booker Toland, Austin Knew His Athens, San Antonio, TX: Naylor, 1958.
See also
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