Giddings, Texas Giddings, Texas The Giddings Municipal Building is positioned athwart from the renovated Lee County Courthouse.
The Giddings Municipal Building is positioned athwart from the renovated Lee County Courthouse.
Location in Lee County in the state of Texas Location in Lee County in the state of Texas State Texas Giddings is the governmental center of county of Lee County, Texas, United States situated on the intersection of U.S.
The city's motto is "Giddings Texas: Experience Hometown Hospitality".
The territory where the town/city of Giddings now stands was part of the territory granted to Richard Franklin Giddens, Stephen F.
The town/city itself was established in 1871 when the Houston and Texas Central Railway came to the area.
It probably took its name from small-town magnate Jabez Deming Giddings, who was instrumental in bringing the stockyards to the area.
Another theory is that the town/city was titled after Jabez's brother Dewitt Clinton Giddings.
Giddings Masonic Lodge, chartered in Evergreen in 1865, moved to Giddings, and early churches and a enhance school met in its building.
Soon after the Civil War, freed slaves from farms and plantations settled in Giddings.
The Lee County Courthouse in Giddings (built 1899) in Giddings Giddings became the governmental center of county when Lee County was established in 1874.
Fire department in Giddings, Texas The populace of Giddings in 1988 was 5,178.
First Presbyterian Church of Giddings is positioned athwart from the Lee County Heritage Center.
In Giddings Giddings is positioned at 30 10 59 N 96 56 5 W (30.183116, -96.934614). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.2 square miles (13 km2), of which 5.2 square miles (13 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.58%) is water.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 31.3% under the age of 18, 13.5% from 18 to 24, 24.7% from 25 to 44, 15.7% from 45 to 64, and 14.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
Giddings at the intersection of U.S.
In 2014, the City of Giddings and the Giddings Economic Development (GEDC) purchased 170 acres of territory on the east side of town with highway frontage for the evolution of the Giddings 290 Business Park.
The Giddings Seed Laboratory (previously Pieratt's Seed Lab), a universal of the Texas Department of Agriculture, is positioned in Giddings. The Texas Youth Commission operates the Giddings State School in unincorporated Lee County, near Giddings. The United States Postal Service operates the Giddings Post Office in Giddings. The City of Giddings is served by the Giddings Independent School District.
The Wendish tradition in Giddings is jubilated annually in close-by Serbin, Texas, put on by the Texas Wendish Heritage Society.
The City Meat Market restaurant at the corner of Austin and Main streets was rated one of the 50 best places for barbecue by Texas Monthly magazine.
Local newspapers serving Giddings and Lee County at large are presently the Giddings Times and News and the Lexington Leader. The Giddings Deutsches Volksblatt, a trilingual German-English-Wendish/Sorbian newspaper, was presented in Giddings. Bill Longley (gunfighter), outlaw hanged in Giddings in 1878; a character of the same name is the hero of the CBS tv series, The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun in the title part as a gunfighter who roams the American West and helps the downtrodden fight off the lawless element. Gwendolyn Bennett (born in Giddings in 1902, a primary Harlem Renaissance figure, poet, short story writer, and art news and criticism column "Ebony Flute," Opportunity periodical a b "Giddings, TX." Climate Summary for Giddings, Texas "Giddings Seed Lab" "1010 CR 226 (shipping) Giddings 78942" "Giddings State School." "Giddings Deutsches Volksblatt." Billy Hathorn, "Roy Bean, Temple Houston, Bill Longley, Ranald Mackenzie, Buffalo Bill, Jr., and the Texas Rangers: Depictions of West Texans in Series Television, 1955 to 1967", West Texas Historical Review, Vol.
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