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Washington County, Texas

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
70historic places
—earliest paper
1836formed
35,805pop. 2020
58cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 70 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Brenham, Chappell Hill, Burton.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Texas is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Washington titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

62 of 70 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

70 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Allcorn-Kokemoor FarmsteadBrenhamBuilding1998
Applewhite, Isaac, HouseChappell HillBuilding1985
Bassett and Bassett Banking HouseBrenhamBuilding1983
Baylor University Female DepartmentIndependenceSite2024
Baylor University Male DepartmentIndependenceSite2024
Becker-Hildebrandt HouseBrenhamBuilding1990
Blinn CollegeBrenhamDistrict1990
Blue Bell Creameries ComplexBrenhamBuilding1990
Brenham Downtown Historic DistrictBrenhamDistrict2004
Brenham High SchoolBrenhamBuilding1990
Brenham High School GymnasiumBrenhamBuilding1990
Brenham Normal and Industrial CollegeBrenhamBuilding2026
Brenham SchoolBrenhamBuilding1990
Brenham Water WorksBrenhamBuilding1990
Brockschmidt-Miller HouseBrenhamBuilding1990
Brown, John M., HouseWashingtonBuilding1975
Browning, W. W., HouseChappell HillBuilding1972
Burton Commercial Historic DistrictBurtonDistrict1991
Burton Farmers GinBurtonBuilding1991
Burton High SchoolBurtonBuilding1991
Chappell Hill Circulating LibraryChappell HillBuilding1985
Chappell Hill Methodist Episcopal ChurchChappell HillBuilding1985
Chappell Hill Public School and Chappell Hill Female College BellChappell HillBuilding1985
East BrenhamBrenhamDistrict1990
Felder, E. King, HouseChappell HillBuilding1985
Gantt-Jones HouseBurtonBuilding1979
Giddings-Stone MansionBrenhamBuilding1976
Giddings-Wilkin HouseBrenhamBuilding1976
Hatfield PlantationBrenhamBuilding1971
Hodde DrugstoreBurtonBuilding1991
Holle, Edmund, HouseBrenhamBuilding1990
Houston, Mrs. Sam, HouseIndependenceBuilding1970
Hoxey, Asa, HouseIndependenceBuilding1976
Kneip-Bredthauer HouseBurtonBuilding1991
Laas, Dr. Charles, HouseBurtonBuilding1991
Lenert, Dr. Robert, HouseBrenhamBuilding1990
Main Building, Blinn CollegeBrenhamBuilding1978
Main Street Historic DistrictChappell HillDistrict1985
Matchett, Edgar, HouseBrenhamBuilding1990
Mt. Zion Methodist ChurchBrenhamBuilding1990
Neumann, William, HouseBurtonBuilding1991
Nienstedt, Herbert, HouseBurtonBuilding1991
Nienstedt, William, HouseBurtonBuilding1991
Pampell-Day HouseBrenhamBuilding1970
Red HouseGay HillBuilding1971
Reichardt-Low HouseBrenhamBuilding1990
Reue-Eickenhorst HouseBrenhamBuilding1995
Rogers, William S., HouseChappell HillBuilding1985
Routt, J. R., HouseChappell HillBuilding1985
Sanders, William Edward, HouseBurtonBuilding1991
Santa Fe Railway Company Freight DepotBrenhamBuilding1990
Schlenker, Almot, HouseBrenhamBuilding1990
Schlenker-Kolwes HouseBrenhamBuilding1990
Schmidt HouseBrenhamBuilding1990
Schroeder, Fritz Paul and Emma, HouseBrenhamBuilding1994
Schuerenberg, F. W., HouseBrenhamBuilding1990
Schuerenberg, R. A., HouseBrenhamBuilding1990
Seelhorst, W. E., HouseBrenhamBuilding1990
Seward PlantationIndependenceDistrict2013
Smith, John Sterling, Jr., HouseChappell HillBuilding1985
Southern Pacific Railroad Freight DepotBrenhamBuilding1990
St. Mary's Catholic ChurchBrenhamBuilding1990
Stage Coach InnChappell HillBuilding1976
Synagogue B'nai AbrahamBrenhamBuilding1990
US Post Office-Federal Building-BrenhamBrenhamBuilding1990
Walker, James, Log HouseBrenhamBuilding1989
Washington County CourthouseBrenhamBuilding1990
WaverlyChappell HillBuilding1983
Wehring Shoe Shop and ResidenceBurtonBuilding1991
Wood-Hughes HouseBrenhamBuilding1990

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Washington was formed in 1836 (1836-03-02) from unknown / original county.

Mexican municipality of WASHINGTON became part of the Republic of Texas.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Washington County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

36k21k5,9831850188019201940196020002020
18501860188019001920194019501960198020002020
5,98315,21527,56532,93126,62425,38720,54219,14521,99830,37335,805

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

58 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 58 of 58 listed
NameLatLon
Affleck Cemetery30.24688-96.47052
Anderson Cemetery30.20827-96.24981
Apperson Cemetery30.11704-96.21041
Atkinson Cemetery30.12922-96.28067
Baptist Hill Cemetery30.13966-96.26357
Bethany Cemetery30.22422-96.61781
Bethlehem Cemetery30.12466-96.51886
Bnai Abraham Cemetery30.15679-96.40863
Broesche Cemetery30.21649-96.61139
Burch Cemetery30.21145-96.31421
Burkhardt Cemetery30.07355-96.62247
Burton Cemetery30.18272-96.57997
Calvary Cemetery30.15799-96.4108
Campground Cemetery30.22705-96.25035
Camptown Cemetery30.16729-96.38685
Carlisle Cemetery30.10466-96.2158
Clear Springs Cemetery30.19638-96.42228
Coplyn Spring Cemetery30.22922-96.28307
Cress Cemetery30.17187-96.27464
Eichholt Cemetery30.24049-96.4283
Evans Prairie Cemetery30.29827-96.12496
Flat Prairie Cemetery30.26827-96.62858
Franklin Cemetery30.24771-96.17829
Frieden Cemetery30.26993-96.47163
Good Hope Cemetery30.31827-96.27024
Guyton and Roberts Cemetery30.20365-96.33411
HIC Cemetery30.15772-96.40969
Hall Cemetery30.21383-96.5758
Hartstack Cemetery30.19956-96.6914
Heisic Cemetery30.2434-96.42974
Independence Cemetery30.32854-96.36108
Jaeger-Witte Cemetery30.09494-96.61275
Latium Cemetery30.08661-96.58053
Lehmann Cemetery30.14855-96.45858
Masonic Cemetery30.15383-96.26024
Mayer Cemetery30.08161-96.61358
Meyer Cemetery30.24549-96.41941
Morgan Cemetery30.20537-96.32524
Motley Cemetery30.093-96.22496
Oak Hill Cemetery30.17883-96.60414
Oak Rest Cemetery30.29484-96.44598
Pleasant Grove Cemetery30.11577-96.44913
Prairie Lea Cemetery30.15568-96.40869
Randle Hill Cemetery30.08939-96.41386
Saint Stanislaus Cemetery30.128-96.28219
Salem Cemetery30.12494-96.42802
Struckmeyer Cemetery30.22771-96.41691
Summers Cemetery30.35215-96.27135
Tennyson Cemetery30.25438-96.19635
Walker - Sandy Creek Cemetery30.17383-96.37337
Walker Cemetery30.15911-96.35747
Wallace Cemetery30.27966-96.49386
Weiss Cemetery30.12883-96.41719
Whitfield Cemetery30.2266-96.27274
Williams Cemetery30.3091-96.51219
Willingham Cemetery30.23438-96.27496
Willow Grove Cemetery30.15994-96.41136
Yellow Fever Cemetery30.18383-96.39969

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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