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The Liberty Gazette was published as early as 1855.

In that year the local Methodist congregation had more black members than whites ; in 1858, of a population of 651, 189 were black.

The Liberty Female Seminary and Male and Female School opened in 1858, and an Ursuline convent academy for girls in 1859.

Liberty expanded as a shipping point when the Texas and New Orleans Railroad reached it in 1858, and in 1860 a Market House was under construction at the site of the future Sam Houston Elementary School.