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| The development of DeWitt's colony brought the first white settlement to the county. In April
1825 empresario Green DeWitt was authorized by the Mexican government to settle 400 families between the Guadalupe
and Lavaca rivers. |
In 1846 Judge James McCulloch Baker was appointed by Governor James Pinckney Henderson to establish
the temporary county government. In 1846-47 the county seat was Daniel Boone Friar's store at the junction of the
La Bahía Road and the Gonzales-Victoria road. A courthouse was constructed at Cameron, but in the next four
years the county had four new seats of government, each change being the result of an election, a recount of votes,
an appeal, or a Supreme Court decision. On November 28, 1850, the county court met at Clinton near Chisholm's Ferry,
and Clinton remained the center of county government until Cuero became county seat in 1876. |
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Cuero
Meyersville (unincorporated)
Nordheim
Yoakum
Yorktown
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