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Van Zandt County's Early Bounds and Settlers in Texas
The Southland article details Van Zandt County’s origins from Coahuila and Texas to its 1848 creation from Henderson County. It notes Cherokee and Fredonian ties, land grants, later county shapes, the “free state” nickname, and early towns Wills Point Grand Saline Canton and railroad lines. It mentions early settlers including Adam Sullivan and the first election with officers in 1848.
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Southland
Waco
Grand Saline
van Zandt County
Texas
Mexico
Coahuila
Don Felix Tresplacios
Augustine V. Iturbide
Sam Houston
Fredonian Republic
Nacogdoches
Hayden Edwards
East
Mercer
Henderson County
Henderson, Rockwall, Kaufman, van Zandt, Wood and
Rains
Wood
Rains County
Jordan Saline
Gilbert Yarborough
John Jordan
Thomas Horseley
Joseph Fisher
Isaac Clark
P.S. Benton
James D. Wright
A. Fitzgerald
W.C. Greer
Carey L. Rice
Peter Kuykendall
Henderson
van Zandt
Free Territory
Free State
Free State of
Wood County
Rockwall
Rains Counties
Kaufman
East Texas
Texas and Pacific Railway
Dallas
Wills Point
Edgewood
Silver Lake
Fruitvale
Canton
Adam Sullivan
Red River County
Sullivan