Washington County

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and they moved us to the east and so now we've also picked up a little bit of travis a little bit of haze um the rest of bashop county now we go all the way over to brenham which is washington county and then we go down through Colorado and Austin County and all of those down to Matagorda County, which is on the Gulf of Mexico, and then dip back over and pick up a little bit of Nueces County where Corpus Christi is.

then we swing back up it's like it looks like a backward c if you look at it on the map it's kind of this you know backward c but it's 17 but it's still

got some an oasis it still

Afterwards, they continued west towards the Brazos River.

Their destination was the region that would eventually become Washington County near the future town of Washington-on-the-Brazos.

And there's something remarkable about this journey.

William Gates had already lived through the American Revolution.

But as the South became hard-pressed for men, he enlisted in the spring of 1864 and served in Captain Carrington's company until the end of the war.

In 1850, a few years before he became adjutant general, my father married Miss Bessie Harper, then a resident of Washington County, Texas.

My mother's father, Captain Harper, was a Southern planter who emigrated from North Carolina between 1846 and 1848 and settled in Washington County, established a Dixie plantation with a hundred slaves.

My mother was a highly cultivated and refined woman.

On her marriage, she brought several Negro servants with her to her new home in Austin.

And as we know, Cleveland will go on to lose the 1888 presidential election.

There's another story that we should tell about 1886. in Washington County, Texas.

Washington County was unusual.

Republicans had remained in control there from 1869 to 1885.

And they're aided by a large African-American electorate.

It says it was tardy justice.

It's a national political issue.

A Senate committee investigates the three Washington County residents, petitions Congress, alleging lost property, stolen or improperly handled ballots, and the lynchings.

So this one comes from Beta in, uh, Texas.

Yeah, Washington County, which is part of the Texas Department of Transportation initiative, actually worked with Beta to understand their, what the capabilities are of their CTOL aircraft.

This is not the vertical takeoff.

This is the conventional aircraft, and how it can be implemented into the rural police force and use it to deliver supplies during a disaster, um, um, medical flights.

And basically, they're trying to integrate these kind of electric aircraft into law enforcement and search and rescue in Texas, and this is all part of a Department of Transportation and Texas initiative.

Yeah, and so this occurred in Washington County.

They say that they have an EMS system that responds to more than 7,000 calls a year across a 700 square mile area, so a lot of calls over a lot of distance, so fairly rural type area.

And this is, yeah, this is a fairly big eVTOL.