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Cass County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 28,454. [1] The county seat is Linden. [2] The county was named for United States Senator Lewis Cass (D-Michigan), who favored the U.S. annexation of Texas in the mid-19th century.
Linden is a city in and the county seat of Cass County, [4] Texas, United States. At the 2020 United States census, its population was 1,825. [5] Linden is named after the city of Linden in Perry County, Tennessee. [6]
- Etymology - Origin of Cass County Name
- Cass County History
- Geography: Land and Water
Lewis Cass, a senator and future presidential candidate from Michigan who had favored the annexation of Texas to the United States
Cass County is a county located in the US state of Texas. The seat of the county is Linden. Cass County was created April 25, 1846; organized July 13, 1846, from sections of Bowie County. It was named for Lewis Cass, a US Senator from Michigan who had favored the annexation of Texas to the United States. During wave of sectional patriotism in 1861,...
As reported by the Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 960 square miles (2,487 km2), of which, 937 square miles (2,428 km2) of it is land and 23 square miles (60 km2) of it (2.39%) is water.
Mar 23, 2021 · Jefferson was chosen as the first county seat, but, after several fiercely contested elections, in 1852 Linden became county seat. The county's boundaries were reduced in 1860 with the formation of Marion County, but, with the exception of small adjustments, have remained unchanged since that time.
Mar 1, 1995 · It was established in 1852 after a redivision of territory had given the old county seat, Jefferson, to Marion County. The townsite was laid out by a Major Wood, who named it for his former home in Tennessee.
Named in honor of Gen. Lewis Cass (1782-1866), United States soldier and statesman, a strong advocate of annexation of Texas. Important river port city of Jefferson was county seat until Marion County was carved out of Cass in 1860; Linden, near center of county, then became county seat.
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Linden, the county seat of Cass County has been on the map of Texas over half a century. It was founded in the early part of 1850. The first courthouse was a two-story frame structure and now stands about 200 yards north of the original site.
