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:
“I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this ... great and important national act.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“Worn down by the hoofs of millions of half-wild Texas cattle driven along it to the railheads in Kansas, the trail was a bare, brown, dusty strip hundreds of miles long, lined with the bleaching bones of longhorns and cow ponies. Here and there a broken-down chuck wagon or a small mound marking the grave of some cowhand buried by his partners “on the lone prairie” gave evidence to the hardships of the journey.”
—For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)