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Beeville is a city in Bee County, Texas, United States, with a population of 13,290 as of 2013. It is the county seat of Bee County〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 and home to the main campus of Coastal Bend College. The area around the city is also home to three prisons operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Many of the stately homes, commercial buildings, and schools in the area, including the Bee County Courthouse, were designed by architect William Charles Stephenson, who came to Beeville in 1908 from Buffalo, New York. Beeville is a National Main Street City.〔http://www.cityofbeevillemainstreet.com〕 ==History and culture== The original site on the Poesta River was first settled by the Burke, Carroll and Heffernan families in the 1830s. Present-day Beeville was established on a 150-acre land donation made by Ann Burke in May of 1859 after the Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States. It was first named "Maryville" for pioneer Mary Heffernan. It was renamed "Beeville" after Barnard E. Bee, Sr., who had served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas. It was called "Beeville-on-the-Poesta", with a nearby community "Beeville-on-the-Medio" seven miles (11 km) to the west. The first post office opened in 1859. In 1886, the first railroad was constructed through Beeville, stimulating the growth of the economy and population. The Southern Pacific Transportation Company operated these railroads until the early 1970s. 〔 http://www.txtransportationmuseum.org/history-beeville.php〕 Beeville was incorporated as a town in 1890, but the incorporation was dissolved the following year. Beeville was reincorporated as a town again in 1908. The city streets were paved in 1921. The Rialto Theater, one of the Beeville structures designed by W. C. Stephenson, cost $25,000. Th Rialto opened on August 19, 1922 with the silent film ''The Three Musketeers'' starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Admission was twenty-five cents for adults and ten cents for children. The theater is now used for special occasions, and live performances.〔() 〕 The Texas oil boom brought in many new residents, which grew the population of the city to 4,806 in 1930. By 1950, the population more than doubled to 9,348. The United States Navy operated the Beeville Naval Air Station, which trained Navy airplane pilots during World War II from 1943 through 1946. The base was reopened in 1952 as Naval Air Station Chase Field, continuing in operation until 1992. Beeville was served by Trans-Texas Airways (TTa) during the 1950s. TTa operated scheduled passenger flights with Douglas DC-3 prop airliners from Chase Field with service to Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Harlingen, Houston, San Antonio and other destinations in Texas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】format= JPG )〕 In 1967, the town was inundated by of rain during Hurricane Beulah. Today the city of around 14,000 residents is enjoying something of a boom from the Eagle Ford Shale oil extraction project. Image:A second Beeville, Texas, sign IMG 0980.JPG|Beeville calls itself "A Honey of a Town". Image:Cattle near Beeville, TX IMG 0987.JPG|Cattle grazing on ranch lands between Beeville and Goliad, Texas Image:Beeville, TX, sign IMG 0979.JPG|Entrance sign at Beeville, Texas 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beeville, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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