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| | A Brief History of Pioneer Entertainment in Beaumont, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The quarterly district and county court sessions were the principal instruments for congregating rural citizens at the county seat, and as a result, the dances at the court house on the preceding Saturday nights. |
 | | Beaumont's earliest "heritage" festival was its Grand Tournament and Strawberry Festival, begun in 1880 and repeated annually during the month of June. |
 | | There were also eight saloons and a jail in Beaumont in 1881, but nearby stood eight churches, seven schools, five lodges, a militant Temperance Society, a newspaper, a sheriff's department, and a police station, all dedicated to keeping the transient log rafters, cattle drovers, or any lawless element in check. |
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