Wythe County, Virginia
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Wythe County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 28,290. Its county seat is Wytheville.
Wythe County Courthouse in Wytheville
Stephen F. Austin
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Stephen Fuller Austin was an American-born empresario, i.e. a person granted the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for settling the eastern areas of the Teja
Wythe County, Virginia
…the size of half the State of Texas. Wythe County's Austinville community was founded by Stephen and his brother Moses Austin, father of the famous Stephen F. Austin. In the 1790s the Austins took over the mines that produced lead and zinc; the town was named for the Austin surname, and not for any one particular…
Posthumous portrait c. 1840
Memorial to Stephen F. Austin in his birthplace
Sam Houston and Stephen Austin depicted on the Texas Centennial Issue postage stamp of 1936
Portrait of Austin, 1833