Lemon Henry Jefferson was born blind near Coutchman, Texas in Freestone County, near present-day Wortham, Texas.

In the 1920 Census, he is recorded as having returned to the Freestone County area, and he was living with his half-brother Kit Banks on a farm between Wortham and Streetman.

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Freestone County is a county located in the U. S. state of Texas.

The threat of Indian hostilities kept most from homesteading in Freestone County until the Treaty of Bird's Fort.

In 1850 the Texas legislature formed Freestone County from Limestone County.

Freestone County voted 585-3 in favor of secession from the Union.

Meaning all of the Waco / Temple / Killeen market stations also provide coverage for Freestone County.

The Freestone County Times newspaper continues to serve the entire county out of Fairfield.

Historic communities in Freestone County have included Baty, Beene, Blunt, Bonner, Bowling, Brewster, Butler, Cobb, Cotton Gin, Driver, Flowerdale, Freestone, Goetz, Harp, Israel, Ivory, Keechil, Lakeport, Lanely, Long Bottom, Luna, Mills, Milton, Morehead, Mount Zion, Pinoak, Pyburn, Shanks, St. Elmo, Starling, Steward's Mill, Stonewall, Troy, Turlington, Valota, Wakefield, West Point, Winkler, Yedell, Yerby, and Young.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Freestone County, Texas

* Freestone County government's website

* See a map, Freestone County / sponsored by Freestone County Historical Survey Committee.

* Freestone County Times homepage

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At the beginning of the 21st century, a large water bottling plant was built on the outskirts of town by Nestlé, where water is bottled from Bennet Hill Springs, a source of Freestone water.

Fairfield is a city in Freestone County, Texas, United States.

It is the county seat of Freestone County.

Kirvin is a town in Freestone County, Texas, United States.

Teague is a city in Freestone County, Texas, United States.

Wortham is a town in Freestone County, Texas, United States.

Oakwood is a town in Freestone and Leon counties in the U. S. state of Texas.

Streetman is a town in Freestone and Navarro Counties in the U. S. state of Texas.

The majority of the town is in Freestone County ; about one-third is in Navarro County.

Built in Ballochmyle Red Freestone it was opened in 1890 by Sir John Stirling Maxwell whose coat of arms is depicted in the entrance porch in the stone of the Hall and is recorded in marble in the floor.

The section from Freestone Lock to Newtown is dry, and no longer in British Waterways ownership.

The section of the canal from Refail ( Efail-Fach ) Bridge to Freestone Lock is in water, though several bridges have been lowered.

The section of the canal from Freestone Lock to Newtown is largely filled-in, and the basin in Newtown has been built on.

An export woodchip mill is located at Freestone Point 5 km south of the town.

Bodega is located on Bodega Highway, about west of Freestone, California.

The main road through town is Bodega Highway, which runs east to Freestone and Sebastopol and south to State Route 1 less than a mile ( 1. 6 km ) away.

The Battle of Cockpit Point, the Battle of Freestone Point, or the Battle of Shipping Point, took place on January 3, 1862, in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the blockade of the Potomac River during the American Civil War.

Freestone types are preferred for eating fresh, while clingstone for canning.

Within three years of the treaty, colonization, primarily from Southern states, had been so successful that the counties surrounding Freestone had already been organized.

When the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution took effect in 1920, banning the sale, manufacturing and transportation of alcoholic beverages for public consumption, until its repeal by the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1933, some enterprising individuals in Freestone followed a national trend and began bootlegging for profit.

" Freestone " water contained none of the trace minerals that brought the crowds to the springs but it was by far the most palatable.

The fumes of progress are in his nose and the bright steel of industry towers before his eyes, but his heart is away in Yoknapatawpha County with razorback hogs and night riders.

Sixty miles north of New York City where the wooded hills of Dutchess County meet the broad sweep of the Hudson River there is a new home development called `` Oakwood Heights ''.

Desegregation in Pulaski County is pending because of court order, although date of admission is not yet determined.

If, on the other hand, it is not settled, or while it is being debated and resolved, does the Federal government have a responsibility in situations like that in Prince Edward County??

In Ireland's County Limerick, near the River Shannon, there is a quiet little suburb by the name of Garryowen, which means `` Garden of Owen ''.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

`` This is one of the major items in the Fulton County general assistance program '', the jury said, but the State Welfare Department `` has seen fit to distribute these funds through the welfare departments of all the counties in the state with the exception of Fulton County, which receives none of this money.

The new school superintendent is Harry Davis, a veteran agriculture teacher, who defeated Felix Bush, a school principal and chairman of the Miller County Democratic Executive Committee.

`` Actually, the abuse of the process may have constituted a contempt of the Criminal court of Cook county, altho vindication of the authority of that court is not the function of this court '', said Karns, who is a City judge in East St. Louis sitting in Cook County court.

County Supervisor Weldon R. Sheets, who is a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, today called for an end to paper ballots in those counties in the state which still use them.

He said `` Morris County is rapidly changing and unless steps are taken to preserve the green areas, there will be no land left to preserve ''.

In Nassau County, for example, the heavily settled Long Island suburb of New York City, the system is credited by the state with serving one million persons, a figure that has doubled since 1950.

This season the orchestra has already taken a step toward the suburbs in that it is giving six subscription concerts for the Orchestral Society of Westchester in the County Center in White Plains.

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota have many superb stretches of color which reach their height from the last few days of September well into October, especially in their northern sections, e.g., Wisconsin's Vilas County whose Colorama celebration is Sept. 29-Oct. 8.

Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.

The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.

* Austin County, Texas ( note that Austin, Texas, is located in Travis County, Texas )

Achill Island () in County Mayo is the largest island off the coast of Ireland, and is situated off the west coast.