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Encyclopedia > San Felipe

San Felipe (the Spanish-language name of Saint Philip) is a moderately common toponym in parts of the world where that language is or was spoken: Philip was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. ... In geography and cartography, a toponym is a place name, a geographical name, a proper name of locality, region, or some other part of Earths surface or its natural or artificial feature. ...

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Handbook of Texas Online: SAN FELIPE DE AUSTIN, TX (1786 words)
San Felipe was located only some eighty miles above the mouth of the Brazos, and keelboats were used extensively to transport goods between the town and various coastal ports.
San Felipe was incorporated in 1837 and became county seat of the newly established Austin County.
Well into the twentieth century the residents of San Felipe continued to claim the rights of the original inhabitants to free water, wood, grazing, and burial ground on the common lands of the municipality.
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