| 词条 | Petersburg (Lavaca County), Texas |
| 释义 |
Petersburg (Lavaca County), Texas was the first seat of Lavaca County when the county was organized in August 1846 but is now an unincorporated area and ghost town. It was located six miles southeast of Hallettsville on Farm Road 2616 on the east bank of the Lavaca River. HistoryThe townsite, 300 acres of land given by Arthur Sherill in 1846.[1] Petersburg's first post office was established in 1848. Petersburg was a crossroads for early Texians at the intersection of the San Felipe-Gonzales-San Antonio and the Victoria-Columbus roads. After single building which was used as a combined courthouse, church, school, and sheriff's office burned to the ground, a new courthouse was constructed in mid-1850s. Between the fire and new construction county business was held in various buildings or under the trees, and prisoners were locked in barns or private homes. In 1852 Hallettsville was made the new county seat. It required arms to secure the county archives from the citizens of Petersburg. During the Civil War the school had to close for lack of pupils. In 1876 the post office was moved to nearby Williamsburg. The final building on the site in 1963 was a home which was built with the old post oak lumber from the Petersburg courthouse. References1. ^{{cite web | url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvp39|title=The Handbook of Texas Online|accessdate=2017-02-19|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|isbn=0-87611-151-7|work=Handbook of Texas}} {{Lavaca County, Texas}}{{coord missing|Texas}}{{LavacaCountyTX-geo-stub}} 4 : Ghost towns in South Texas|Lavaca County, Texas|Former county seats in Texas|1846 establishments in Texas |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。