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79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1894, Chapter 1361

Description: Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation, powers, management, and boundaries of certain utility districts and a water control and improvement district in Kaufman County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Historic Plaque, Colonel Isham Chisum

Description: Photograph of a historic plaque. It reads "Colonel Isham Chisum (1818-1884) One of the leading early citizens of Kaufman County. Represented the county in Texas Secession Convention, Jan. - March 1861. Later in 1861, he fought in Confederate Cavalry of Col. Tom Green in New Mexico campaign. As Colonel of 2nd Partisan Rangers, Walker's Division, fought at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill (La.), in Red River campaign to prevent a Federal invasion of Texas in 1864. A cousin of Jesse Chisholm, who pione… more
Date: October 26, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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