Editing Brazoria County, Texas (section)

== History ==
Brazoria County takes its name from the Brazos River, which flows through it. Anglo-Texas began in Brazoria County when the first of [[Stephen F. Austin]]'s authorized [[Old Three Hundred|300 American settlers]] arrived at the mouth of the Brazos in 1821. Many of the events leading to the [[Texas Revolution]] developed in Brazoria County. In 1832, Brazoria was organized as a separate municipal district by the Mexican government, so became one of Texas original counties at independence in 1836.

An early resident of Brazoria County, Joel Walter Robison, fought in the Texas Revolution and later represented [[Fayette County, Texas|Fayette County]] in the [[Texas House of Representatives]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fro42
|title=Robison, Joel Walter|publisher=[[Texas State Historical Association]]|access-date=August 2, 2015}}</ref>

Stephen F. Austin's original burial place is located at a church cemetery, [[Gulf Prairie Cemetery]], in the town of [[Jones Creek, Texas|Jones Creek]], on what was his brother-in-law's Peach Point Plantation. His remains were exhumed in 1910 and brought to be reinterred at the state capital in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]]. The town of [[West Columbia, Texas|West Columbia]] served as the first capital of Texas, dating back to prerevolutionary days.

[[File:Men in Work Clothes.jpg|thumb|Group of men at work in Brazoria County, 1939]]
The [[Hastings Oil Field]] was discovered by the [[Stanolind]] Oil and Gas Company in 1934. Production was from a depth of {{convert|5990|ft|m}}, associated with a [[salt dome]] structure. Total production by 1954 was about 242 million barrels.<ref name=oo>{{cite book |last1=Olien |first1=Diana |last2=Olien |first2=Roger |title=Oil in Texas, The Gusher Age, 1895-1945 |date=2002 |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin |isbn=0292760566 |pages=214}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Weingartner |first1=R. |editor1-last=Nettleton |editor1-first=L.L. |title=Geophysical Case History of the Hastings Oil Field, Brazoria and Galveston Counties, Texas, in Geophysical Case Histories, Volume 1=1948 |date=1949 |publisher=Society of Exploration Geophysicists |pages=156–165}}</ref>

[[Lake Jackson, Texas|Lake Jackson]] is a community developed beginning in the early 1940s to provide housing to workers at a new [[Dow Chemical Company]] plant in nearby [[Freeport, Texas|Freeport]]. The county has elements of both [[rural]] and [[suburban]] communities, as it is part of [[greater Houston]].

[[File:Back View of Trucks.jpg|thumb|Back view of agricultural trucks, 1939]]
On June 2, 2016, the [[May 2016 United States storm complex|flooding]] of the Brazos River required evacuations for portions of Brazoria County.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Houston-region-braces-for-more-flooding-as-rain-7958840.php|title=Mandatory evacuations ordered in Brazoria County|date=June 2, 2016|work=Houston Chronicle|access-date=July 19, 2018}}</ref>