Harrison County
200 West Houston
Marshall, Texas 75670
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| Harrison County is a county on the
eastern border of the state of Texas. As of the 2020 United
States census, its population was 68,839. The county seat is
Marshall. The county was created in 1839 and organized in
1842. It is named for Jonas Harrison, a lawyer and Texas
revolutionary. |
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Developed for cotton plantations by planters from the
South, this county had the highest number of enslaved
African Americans in Texas before the Civil War. They
comprised 59% of the population. From 1870 to 1930, Blacks
made up 60% of the county's population. In the
post-Reconstruction era, whites used lynchings to assert
their dominance, in addition to the state's
disenfranchisement of blacks. |
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From 1940 to 1970, in the second wave of the Great
Migration, many blacks moved to the West Coast to escape Jim
Crow and for work in the expanding defense industry. More
whites have moved in since the late 20th century as the
county's economy has developed beyond the rural, and now
comprise the majority. |
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Harrison County comprises the Marshall micropolitan
statistical area, which is also included in the
Longview-Marshall combined statistical area. It is located
in the Ark-La-Tex region. |
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Harrison County Courthouse |
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