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Huntsville, our county seat, is home of Big Sam – the world's tallest statue of an American hero anywhere in the world. Other attractions include Sam Houston State University, Huntsville State Park, Sam Houston National Forest, Sam Houston Memorial Museum, and HEARTS Veterans Museum. Our historic downtown features murals by world-renowned artist Richard Haas, and the New … [Read more...] about Why Stop In Walker County???

A population of more than 300,000 makes Nueces County the 12th-largest county in the state. Its location on the Gulf Coast gives visitors choices such as deep-sea fishing from the “village” of Port Aransas, sandy beaches in county parks and the Padre Island National Seashore, and the busy harbor and terminals of the Port of Corpus Christi, where huge oil tankers come … [Read more...] about Why Stop In Nueces County???

Ellis County is located in north Central Texas and shares its borders with Dallas County to the north, Kaufman County to the east, Navarro and Hill Counties to the south, and Johnson County to the west. The county seat, Waxahachie, is also the largest municipality and is located on Interstate Highway 35-E, some 30 miles south of Dallas. There are a variety of cultural events … [Read more...] about Why Stop In Ellis County???

Concho County is the exact center of Texas, the geodetic center, that is. The geodetic center simply means that if the extremities of Texas were converted into a rectangle, then diagonal lines were drawn from the corners, the point at which the lines cross puts the center in Concho County. Several years ago, the surveyors society placed a granite marker in a pasture about 15 … [Read more...] about Why Stop In Concho County???