Bill Text: TX HR340 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Recognizing February 12, 2013, as Wise County Day at the State Capitol.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-02-12 - Reported enrolled [HR340 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HR340-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Recognizing February 12, 2013, as Wise County Day at the State Capitol.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-02-12 - Reported enrolled [HR340 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HR340-Introduced.html
83R6827 LUC-D | ||
By: King of Parker | H.R. No. 340 |
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WHEREAS, Residents of Wise County are visiting Austin on | ||
February 12, 2013, to celebrate Wise County Day at the State | ||
Capitol; and | ||
WHEREAS, Located in the northwestern part of the state, Wise | ||
County has a varied terrain, much of which has proven to be fertile | ||
farmland; the first known inhabitants of the area in historic times | ||
were the Wichita, followed by groups of Caddo, Delaware, and | ||
Kichai; Anglo settlers arrived in the 1850s, and on January 23, | ||
1856, the county was carved out of Cooke County by legislative act | ||
and named in honor of Henry A. Wise, a U.S. congressman from | ||
Virginia who had supported the annexation of Texas; at the same time | ||
as it created Wise County, the legislature decreed that its county | ||
seat be established within five miles of the county's center, and | ||
two years later that new community became known as Decatur, after | ||
the naval hero Stephen Decatur; and | ||
WHEREAS, The eastern fork of the Chisholm Trail passed near | ||
Decatur during the latter half of the 19th century, and the town | ||
prospered as a shipping point and market for local farmers; today, | ||
it is a center for natural gas production, specialty carbon and | ||
graphite manufacturing, and health care, as well as marketing and | ||
processing for Wise County agribusiness; visitors are drawn to | ||
Decatur by such historic attractions as the Waggoner Mansion, the | ||
Wise County Heritage Museum, the Wise County Veterans Park, and the | ||
pink granite Wise County Courthouse, which was completed in 1896; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, Wise County is home to a variety of recreational | ||
opportunities provided by Lake Bridgeport, Eagle Mountain Lake, and | ||
the Caddo-Lyndon B. Johnson National Grasslands; in addition, area | ||
residents celebrate their heritage with the annual Butterfield | ||
Stage Days Festival in May, the Wise County Old Settlers Reunion in | ||
July, and the Chisholm Trail Days and Western Heritage Festival in | ||
September; and | ||
WHEREAS, The citizens of Wise County may take justifiable | ||
pride in their corner of Texas and know that it has contributed | ||
immensely to the development and vitality of the Lone Star State; | ||
now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas | ||
Legislature hereby recognize February 12, 2013, as Wise County Day | ||
at the State Capitol and extend best wishes to the visiting | ||
delegation for an informative and enjoyable stay in Austin. |