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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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    gov/state-parks/washington-on-the-brazos. "BRAZOS RIVER". tshaonline.org. 12 June 2010. Sandbars and Sternwheelers: Steam Navigation on the Brazos. Texas A&M...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • California. Washington Court House, Ohio Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas Washington Escarpment, Antarctica Washington, Ontario, Canada George Washington, Cuba...
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    Texas Declaration of Independence (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    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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  • 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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    Places listings in Brazos County, Texas Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Brazos County "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Brazos County, Texas". United...
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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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    Texas Independence Day (category State holidays in the United States)
    Delegates signed 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...
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    Texas (Washington-on-the-Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco and Columbia), before President Sam Houston moved the capital to Houston in 1837. The next...
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  • for Solo Viola (1980), "Sonata for flute and piano" (1986) and "Washington-on-the-Brazos, a Symphonic Poem" (1986), "Fantasia No. 2 for Solo Viola" (1990)...
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    David G. Burnet (category S-bef: 'before' parameter includes the word 'created')
    [citation needed] On hearing of William B. Travis's plea for help at the Alamo, Burnet traveled to Washington-on-the-Brazos to recruit help from the Convention...
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    George Childress (category People of the Texas Revolution)
    the Texas Centennial, the state erected a statue of Childress in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas. Correspondence of James K. Polk. Vol. 3. pp. 14n2. Ericson...
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    met at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 1. The following day, the 59 delegates created the Republic of Texas by affixing their signatures to the Texas...
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    Sam Houston and slavery (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    Washington-on-the-Brazos until they were able to acquire a small home there. The couple's first child Sam Houston, Jr. was born in the new house on May...
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    of Texas, 1836–1845), seven sites served as the capital of Texas: Washington (now Washington-on-the-Brazos), 1836 Harrisburg (now part of Houston), 1836...
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    Dogtrot house (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    Anderson, vice-president of the Republic of Texas died from illness at the Inn while en route home from Washington-on-the-Brazos. The Barrington Living History...
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    commissioner to the United States Speculative design of the amended Zavala flag based on the amendments in the remaining Washington-On-The-Brazos convention...
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  • a town in Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, a notable place in Texas history. The longest single-word town names in the U.S. are Kleinfeltersville...
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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...
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    Texas Archive War (category 1842 in the Republic of Texas)
    convened the Seventh Texas Congress at Washington-on-the-Brazos. In his introductory remarks, Houston demanded that Congress support the removal of the archives...
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    Anson Jones (category Template:Succession box: 'after' parameter includes the word 'abolished')
    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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    Texas (redirect from The Lone Star State)
    from the United States, Europe, and the Mexican interior, primarily the U.S. Austin's settlers, the Old Three Hundred, made places along the Brazos River...
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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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    Brazos Bend State Park is a 4,897-acre (1,982 ha) state park along the Brazos River in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas (with a Needville postal...
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    relieve the Alamo. Sam Houston convinced the delegates to remain in Washington-on-the-Brazos to develop a constitution. After being appointed sole commander...
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    Felix Huston Robertson (category People from Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas)
    the 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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