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Location of Gonzales, Texas Location of Gonzales, Texas County Gonzales Gonzales is a town/city in Gonzales County, Texas, United States.
9 Gallery of Gonzales Gonzales is one of the earliest Anglo-American settlements in Texas, the first west of the Colorado River.
De - Witt titled the improve for Rafael Gonzales, governor of Coahuila y Tejas. Informally, the improve was known as the De - Witt Colony.
Gonzales is referred to as the "Lexington of Texas" because it was the site of the first skirmish of the Texas Revolution.
Gonzales later contributed 32 men from the Gonzales Ranging Company to the defense of the Alamo. It was the only town/city to send aid to the Alamo, and all 32 men lost their lives defending the site.
It was to Gonzales that Susanna Dickinson, widow of one of the Alamo defenders, and Joe, the slave of William B.
Gathering the Texians at Peach Creek east of town, under the Sam Houston Oak, Houston ordered Gonzales burned, to deny it to the enemy.
Gonzales is positioned in central Gonzales County at 29 30 32 N 97 26 52 W (29.508801, 97.447709), on the northeast side of the Guadalupe River, just east of the mouth of the San Marcos River.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Gonzales has a total region of 6.1 square miles (15.7 km2), all of it land. Gonzales County Courthouse, rather than in 1896 to plans by J.
The old Gonzales College at 820 St.
The town/city of Gonzales is served by the Gonzales Independent School District and is home to the Gonzales High School Apaches. According to the University Interscholastic League of Texas, the Gonzales Apaches football team is in the 4 - A-1 Region IV District 15; Division: 4 - A-1. The town/city of Gonzales also is home to the Gonzales Center, a branch of the Victoria College which is positioned in Victoria, Texas. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Buildings in Gonzales, Texas.
The site of the Battle of Gonzales, in the village of Cost, off Highway 97, is marked by a handsome contemporary and bronze monument commissioned by the State of Texas in 1910.
The Gonzales County Courthouse (1896), on the National Register of Historic Places, is by the master of Texas courthouses, James Riely Gordon.
Winning a country-wide competition for the Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio launched Gordon's career, as the first of 72 courthouses, 18 of them in Texas (with 12 remaining in this state).
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Gonzales has an exceptionally high concentration of historic homes and buildings.
In 2012, This Old House titled Gonzales as one of the Best Old House Neighborhoods, noting its well-preserved downtown, its large stock of affordable and fixer-upper fine homes in Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Italianate, and Greek Revival styles, as well as the town's low cost of living and convenience to the big metros/cities of Austin, San Antonio, and Houston.
The earliest dwellings in Gonzales date to the mid-19th century, but most of the architecturally notable homes were constructed beginning in the late Victorian period, from about 1880 to about 1915.
Many of the most notable homes, assembled for the meaningful families of Gonzales, were erected along St.
Rather House (1892) 828 St.
Kennard House (1895) 621 St.
Burgess House (1897) 803 St.
Patton House (1907) 927 St.
Edward Lewis House (1910) 605 St.
Hoskins House (1911) 906 St.
Dilworth House (1911) 903 St.
Robertson House (1915) 1520 St.
Littlefield (1842 1920), Texas cattleman, banker, and regent of the University of Texas at Austin, lived in Gonzales amid the 1870s.
The Gonzales Museum was part of Texas' 1936 centennial celebration.
The Houston House at 621 St.
Following the standard plan of metros/cities in New Spain, the town is organized around a large central square of four parts: Courthouse Square, Confederate Square, Texas Heroes Square, and Church Square.
The Gonzales Inquirer, one of the earliest newspapers in Texas, presented since 1853, is headquartered on St.
The Edward Sweeney House (1926) at 1109 St.
Spooner House (1875) at 207 St.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Gonzales has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. "City of Gonzales Texas".
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Gonzales Texas Chamber of Commerce.
"Gonzales titled top historical improve in Texas".
Gonzales, Texas; "Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities" online; accessed September 2015 "Gonzales Independent School District".
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Climate Summary for Gonzales, Texas Frenzel, Paul (1999), Historic Homes of Gonzales, Gonzales, TX: Reese's Printing Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gonzales, Texas.
City of Gonzales official website Gonzales Chamber of Commerce Account of the 1826 Indian attack from Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas by John Henry Brown presented 1880(?), hosted by The Portal to Texas History e - Podunk: Profile for Gonzales, Texas Municipalities and communities of Gonzales County, Texas, United States
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