Haunted Richmond & the Old Fort Bend Jail

Richmond is one of the oldest towns in Texas, chartered in 1837 by veterans of the revolution, and few places pack so much history into so few blocks. This short walk loops the old core of the Fort Bend County seat: the 1908 courthouse that still runs county business, the stern old jail that the town's ghost-hunters love best, and Morton Cemetery, where the 'Mother of Texas' and a president of the Republic lie beneath the oaks. Along the way you'll meet the founders whose names fill the county — Jane Long, Mirabeau Lamar, Deaf Smith — and hear the ghost stories the town tells about the jail and the graveyard. Those tales are offered as local lore, not fact. The documented history, which comes first at every stop, is dramatic enough: a frontier town of duels, deputies, and Republic-era statesmen, all within an easy walk.