Edinburg, Texas
Located in the
South Texas Plains
region, the town of Edinburg, Texas is in
Hidalgo
county.
Edinburg, the Hidalgo county seat, is on U.S. Highway 281 and State Highway 107 in the south central part of the county. It is part of the McAllen, Pharr, Edinburg metropolitan area. Hidalgo, on the Rio Grande, was the original county seat. John Closnerqv and William Briggs, who had land-development projects in the vicinity of Chapin, seventeen miles north of Hidalgo, made...
Source:http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/EE/hee2.html
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Old Postcards courtesy www.txgenweb.org/postcards
Courthouse Photos courtesy www.barnfield.net
State Park and Historic Site Photos courtesy State of Texas.
Misc. City Photos courtesy local tourism offices.
Misc. Photos courtesy All Across Texas.
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