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    Washington-on-the-Brazos is an unincorporated community along the Brazos River in Washington County, Texas, United States. The town is best known for being...
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    Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site.” Texas Parks and Wildlife, 6 Nov. 2018, tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/washington-on-the-brazos. "BRAZOS RIVER"...
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    the document in Washington on the Brazos, which is now referred to as the “birthplace of Texas,” and it made Mexican Texas into the Republic of Texas...
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    Brazos County (/ˈbræzəs/ BRAZ-əs) is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 233,849. The county seat is Bryan....
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    Brazos Valley (/ˈbræzəs/ BRAZ-əs) is a region of the U.S. state of Texas comprising the following 7 counties in Central Texas: Brazos, Burleson, and Robertson...
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    The Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site is a historic site at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, where the Convention of 1836 adopted the Texas...
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  • Felipe de Austin, now the San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site, headquarters of the Colony of Texas Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, March 1, 1836 to...
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    William F. Buckley Sr. (category People from Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas)
    was the grandfather of author and humorist Christopher Buckley. Buckley was born the fourth of eight children in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, the son...
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  • Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, at 21 letters for the title of longest hyphenated placename in the United States appearing in the US Geological Survey's...
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  • Ohio Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas Washington Escarpment, Antarctica Washington, Ontario, Canada George Washington, Cuba (also known as Washington) Washington...
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    Statistical Area. Washington-on-the-Brazos in the county is notable as the site of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence during the Convention...
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    adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and was formally signed the next day after mistakes were noted in the text....
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    Navasota River (category Rivers of Brazos County, Texas)
    south into the Brazos River at a point where Brazos, Grimes, and Washington counties converge. The river has been known by several names. The indigenous people...
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  • Convention of 1836 (category 1836 in the Republic of Texas)
    The Convention of 1836 was the meeting of elected delegates in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas in March 1836. The Texas Revolution had begun five months...
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    Felix Huston Robertson (category People from Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas)
    battlefield and in the field hospital. Robertson was born in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to Mary (Cummins) and Jerome B. Robertson, who would also...
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    Tilghman Howard (category Ambassadors of the United States to the Republic of Texas)
    he served all of two weeks before his untimely death in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, at the age of 46. Howard is buried in Rockville, Indiana. Howard...
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  • within the United States, as of 2020: The State of Washington 31 of the 50 United States are home to a Washington County. There are 5 Washington Townships...
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    The Double Mountain Fork Brazos River is an ephemeral, sandy-braided stream about 170 mi (280 km) long, heading on the Llano Estacado of West Texas about...
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  • names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System are: Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas (21 letters, longest...
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    Brazos County, Texas, United States, situated in East-Central Texas in the Brazos Valley, towards the eastern edge of the region known as the Texas Triangle...
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  • Tennessee Samuel Stacker House, non-contributing, Tennessee Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas Sweeny, Texas Arcola Slave Quarters, Arcola, Virginia, NRHP-listed...
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    lands. It passes near Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, which is the birthplace of Texas as the location of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence...
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    Jerome B. Robertson (category People from Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas)
    relatives to Texas in December 1837, buying land and settling in Washington-on-the Brazos. He established a medical practice, and became known on the frontier...
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    Mary Smith Jones (category People from Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas)
    left Mary and the children strapped for money, and forced to sell their land and home at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Ashbel Smith assisted the family with...
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    200miles Texas A&M Baylor    The Battle of the Brazos is an American college football rivalry game between the Baylor Bears and Texas A&M Aggies. The rivalry...
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  • Robert J. Moore (category People from Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas)
    served three terms in the Texas Legislature. He was born in Navasota, Texas in 1844. After the American Civil War, he became active in the Republican Party...
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    William D. Love (category People from Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas)
    judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals (later the United States Tax Court) from 1925 to 1933. Born in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, Love was...
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    in the district, along with Washington-on-the-Brazos Historical Site (where Texas declared its independence from Mexico) and the headquarters of the Texas...
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    Anson Jones (category People of the Texas Revolution)
    Anson Jones Elementary in the Dallas ISD system. His plantation home, known as Barrington, is preserved at Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Park. Anson...
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    Area code 979 (category Brazos County, Texas)
    in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Texas. The numbering plan area comprises the region generally following the Brazos River...
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