Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tun lokacin da aka kafa shi a 1824, Washington ta kasance muhimmiyar tasha a kan hanya mai banƙyama ta Kudu maso Yamma don majagaba da ke tafiya zuwa Texas. A wannan shekarar an kafa shi a matsayin "wurin zama na adalci" ga wannan yanki, kuma a cikin 1825 an kafa Kotun Hempstead County Court of Common Pleas, wanda ke cikin ginin da aka gina kusa da wani mashaya mallakar mazaunin farko Elijah Stuart. Tsakanin 1832 da 1839 dubban 'yan asalin Amurka na Choctaw sun wuce ta Washington a kan hanyarsu zuwa yankin Indiya. 'Yan gaba da kuma jaruman kasa James Bowie, Sam Houston da Davy Crockett duk sun yi tafiya ta Washington a kan hanyar zuwa Alamo
Ka yi haƙuri. An yi imanin cewa Houston ya shirya sassan dabarun tawaye a cikin wani mashaya a Washington a cikin 1834. James Black, wani maƙerin Washington, an yaba shi da ƙirƙirar wuka wanda ya zama sananne a matsayin wuka mai suna Bowie, wanda James Bowie ya ɗauka.