Texas
- Bayou Vista
- Beaumont ("beautiful mountain")
- Biloxi
- Blanchard
- Burnet County (named after early Texas leader David Gouverneur Burnet)
- Colmesnil
- Crockett County (Davy Crockett's ancestors were Huguenots named Croquetagne, one of whom was captain in the Royal Guard of Louis XIV)
- Dallardsville
- DeBerry
- Decatur
- Doucette
- Dumas, named after its founder Louis Dumas
- Duval County
- Fayette County (named after the Marquis de Lafayette)
- Gary City
- La Grange (named after the Marquis de Lafayette's chateau)
- La Marque
- La Porte ("The Door")
- La Salle County (named after explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle)
- Lamar County (named after early Texas leader Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar)
- Marion County
- Mauriceville
- Menard
- Menard County
- Mont Belvieu
- Montgomery County
- Orange
- Orange County
- Paris
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Famous quotes containing the word texas:
“The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key ... and bolt the door at once.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)
“During the cattle drives, Texas cowboy music came into national significance. Its practical purpose is well known—it was used primarily to keep the herds quiet at night, for often a ballad sung loudly and continuously enough might prevent a stampede. However, the cowboy also sang because he liked to sing.... In this music of the range and trail is “the grayness of the prairies, the mournful minor note of a Texas norther, and a rhythm that fits the gait of the cowboy’s pony.””
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)