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- lisville was settled in 1825 by Elisha H.R. Wallis, a pioneer from Georgia, on land in the Joseph Vehlein grant, a contractor working to place colonists in Texas. Chambers County was organized in 1858 and Wallisville was made the county seat, which in turn was making the town a thriving retail market. A courthouse fire in 1875 destroyed the wooden structure along with all of the records inside. This resulted in the building of a brick and stone courthouse with a jail and an execution tower in 1886. This structure was also destroyed by fire. By 1900, the town had 728 people, a shipyard, a lumber yard, a cotton gin, a skating rink, several stores, an export house and Chambers County's first newspaper "The Wallisville Age". In 1908, though, the courthouse was moved to Anahuac after the famous "County Seat Hog War," over the issue of letting animals roam at large.
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