Brazoria County

Brazoria County

  • 111 E Locust St
  • Angleton, Texas
  • 77515-4642

Description

The following year, 1835, the Congress held another election to move the seat of jurisprudence back to Brazoria but the election failed to carry. When the General Consultation of Texas met in San Felipe de Austin on October 16, 1835, a resolution passed, renaming Brazoria as the seat of justice. This did not resolve the issue. Again on November 20, 1837, Brazoria Countians held another election to decide if the seat should remain in Brazoria or move back to Columbia. The election failed to carry and the Congress of the Republic of Texas declared Brazoria the permanent Brazoria County seat. They raised the issue again in 1882, and again it failed to pass. Meanwhile, in 1890, Faustino Kiber and his business partner Lewis Randolph Bryan Sr., purchased more than 3,000 acres of land between the Columbia Tap Railroad and New Velasco. They purchased it in response to the land boom in New Velasco. On August 12, 1891, they sold a right-of-way to the Velasco Terminal Railway Company, with the...

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