| Wharton County was established after Texas statehood and the Mexican War in 1846
from parts of Matagorda, Jackson, and Colorado counties, taking their best and most fertile land. The act that
formed the county provided for its immediate organization and a county seat to be named Wharton and located on
the northeast bank of the Colorado River in the east central portion of the county within one of the leagues granted
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Because of sugar cane production,
Wharton, Fort Bend, Brazoria, and Matagorda counties came to be known as the "Texas sugar bowl." Completion
of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway extension across the northwest corner of the county by 1860 improved
commodity prices, though roads to the railroad line remained poor. Some consumer goods were brought by riverboat
up the Colorado River from Matagorda, but most came overland from Richmond or Matagorda.
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| Residents of Wharton County cast only two votes against secession, and many soon
joined the Confederate war effort as part of Terry's Texas Rangers, the Home Guards, or the Wharton Rifles. Three
Home Guard posts were established in 1861 at Egypt, Wharton, and Waterville, as part of the Twenty-second Brigade,
which included Fayette, Colorado, Wharton, and Matagorda counties. The camp in Wharton was named Camp Buchel in
honor of Col. Augustus Buchel, C.S.A., and was in the First Military District, Sub-district Three. |
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Cities and towns
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Boling-Iago
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Louise
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East Bernard
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Wharton
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El Campo
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Newgulf
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Hungerford
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