Surrounding Counties
Huntsville • New Waverly • Riverside
In the early 1830s colonists from the United States arrived in the area. Pleasant Gray and his brother Ephraim established a trading post on the site that eventually became Huntsville, named after Huntsville, Alabama, Pleasant's former home. In April 1846 the First Legislature ofthe new state of Texas established Walker County and designated Huntsville the seat of government.
Coldspring • Point Blank • Shepherd • Oakhurst
San Jacinto County was created in 1869, and was re-created in 1870 from Liberty, Polk, Montgomery, and Walker Counties. The Almanac states that it was named for the Battle of San Jacinto. Census Records are available for 1880. Coldspring is the County Seat.
Ames • Cleveland • Daisetta • Dayton • Dayton Lakes • Devers • Hardin • Kenefick • Liberty • North Cleveland • Plum Grove
Liberty County, formed and organized in 1836 in the new Republic of Texas, originally included all of the future Tyler County and parts of what later became Hardin, Chambers, San Jacinto, and Polk counties. Liberty was named county seat and incorporated in 1837.
Houston • Bellaire • Pasadena • Southside Place
Harris County is named for John Richardson Harris, who first arrived in the area in 1824. He first settled on land located at the junction of Bray's and Buffalo bayous. In 1825, he laid out the city of Harrisburg. Harrisburg Muncipal was created by the General Council on December 30, 1835 and designated the town as the seat of it's government.
Brookshire • Hempstead • Pattison • Pine Island • Waller • Prairie View
Waller County was created in April 1873. Its county seat is Hempstead. The county was named for Virginia native Edwin Waller, the first mayor of Austin and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. The first brick two story courthouse and jail was built in Hempstead. It burned in 1892 and was replaced by another brick courthouse in 1894.
Anderson • Navasota • Bedias • Richards • Iola •
Todd Mission
On April 6, 1846, the first state legislature accepted the petition of local residents and established Grimes County, named in honor of Jesse Grimes, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence who was then representing the area in the state Senate.
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