The birth of Collingsworth County

Collingsworth Chronicles

  • Texas counties created by number and year.
    Texas counties created by number and year.
  • Texas county map vertex color identification.
    Texas county map vertex color identification.
  • Texas prior to the compromise of 1850. Floyd Killough Collection
    Texas prior to the compromise of 1850. Floyd Killough Collection
  • Collingsworth Chronicles
    Collingsworth Chronicles
    Just six months after the end of the Texas Revolution, citizens of the Republic of Texas voted in favor of joining the United States. Following years of negotiation, on Dec. 27, 1845, U.S. President James K. Polk signed a “Joint Resolution for the Admission of the State of Texas into the Union,” and Texas became the 28th state. Texas covered a huge area at that time, but it was also deeply ...

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