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Date Posted: 07:42:22 02/11/04 Wed
Author: Stephen Johns
Subject: Re: Short History of Mclennan County
In reply to: Cody Farrell 's message, "Short History of Mclennan County" on 15:09:49 02/10/04 Tue

Thats good stuff Cody, I appreciate it. I have a question though, does this mean that we, Co. A, is from the Waco, McLennon County area?

Yer pard, Stephen

> One of the first land grants given in the area that
>would later bcome known as McLennan county was to
>Thomas Jefferson Chambers on April 26, 1832. Although
>several serveying expeditons ventured into the area
>through the 1830's all permanent settlements were
>delayed until around the 1840's. Some time before
>1840 a temparary ranger station was established in the
>area but was abandoned the following June. The
>Republic of Texas attempted to establish a local
>government in 1842, by forming a judicial district
>known as Waco County. But the next year the Texas
>Suprem Court ruled such conties unconstitutional. In
>1848 plans were set up for permanent townsite at the
>former Waco Indian Villiage. Jacob Rahel de Cordova
>and several others began to sale land in the area at a
>dollar per acre. The next year in 1849, the town of
>Waco was laid out.
> A County was established by the Texas legislature
>on January 22, 1850, which would be named after Neil
>McLennan an early settler. the county government
>would be established in August of the same year, with
>Wacon as its county seat. At the time the county
>included the present area as well as the to the
>northwest as far as the Northern boundary of the
>Robertson colony. McLennan County was reduced in size
>in 1854, when Bosque County was formed (this is its
>present size.) Though the county was formed to late
>to be inclueded in the 1850 census it is believed that
>the population numbered in the several hundreds. This
>was only possible with the push of the frontier well
>north of the area. Aside from Waco some other early
>communities were Bosqueville and Bold Spring. Most
>settlers before the War were Americans of English,
>Scottish, and Irish desent. Many of whom were
>well-to-do people with educations, money to invest,
>and established schools, churches, and small
>companies. Also in 1854, the county was divided into
>school districts.
> Baptist and Methodist churches were amoung the
>earliest oragnized in the county. The first Methodist
>Church was built in 1850, with the first Baptist
>following a year later in 1851. Later a Presbyterian
>church was organized in 1855. Few Catholics lived in
>the area until after the War when German and Czech
>immigrants come to the area. The 1860 census showed
>the county's free population to be 3,811;270 of which
>were slave owners who owned a total of 2, 395 slaves.
> McLennan county is moslty flat rolling terrain.
>The western section of the county varies shallow,
>stony soils that support mountain cedar and oaks. The
>eastern section is generally low and rolling to flat,
>with black waxy woils comprised of clay and sand loams
>that support mesquite, scrub brush, and several
>grasses. The Brazos River crosses the county from
>northwest to southeast. Wildlife in the area included
>deer, coyotes, rabbits, bobcats, beaver, opossums,
>fox, raccon, mink, skunks squirrels, antelope,
>buffalo, bear and wild hogs. The land near the Brazos
>River lent itself well to the establishment of large
>cotton plantations. Mostly the surrounding prairie
>was used primarily for livestock. The 1860 produciton
>of the county's farmers included 2,300 bales of
>cotton, 187,800 bushels of corn, 39,200 bushels of
>wheat, 46,600 cattle, and 22,000 sheep.
> In January of 1861, Richard Coke represented the
>county at the Secession Convention. Though, the
>county voted to succed in 1861 by a vote of 586 to 191
>the mayor of Waco (1862-66) was a well known Unionist.
> Its believed that 1,500 men from McLennan County
>served in the Confederate Army including six generals.
>
>
>More to come at future dates!
>
>Your Pard,
>Cody
>Upstart Mess
>Co. A 15th Texas Inf.

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Re: Short History of Mclennan County -- Cody Farrell, 09:22:00 02/11/04 Wed
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