Texana, Texas

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Texana is a ghost town which was located in Jackson County, Texas, United States, near Edna.^[1] The community was one of the earliest Anglo-American settlements in the state. The town flourished as late as 1880, but when the railroad bypassed the town, it rapidly declined. The site was flooded a century later by the Lake Texana reservoir.

History

In 1832 Dr. Francis F. Wells and his sister-in-law, Pamelia McNutt Porter, founded a community in south central Jackson County that later developed into Texana. The village was originally named Santa Anna after Antonio López de Santa Anna, at the time a popular Mexican liberal, soldier, and politician. In 1835, however, after Santa Anna had proven himself an enemy of republican government, the residents of the settlement changed the name to Texana. During the Texas Revolution of 1835-1836, Texana served as a port of entry and training camp for many volunteers from the United States. Dr. Jack Shackelford's company of Alabama Red Rovers camped around Texana for about two weeks before joining James Fannin's command at Goliad. In the spring of 1836 the citizens of Texana joined the Runaway Scrape. "Uncle" Jeff Parson, a slave during the Runaway Scrape, told how the "old town of Texana was abandoned, not an individual was left on Jackson County soil, all were in flight, where they were going no one knew."^{[citation needed]}

After the

Lake Texana, a reservoir on the Navidad River, covers the ghost town, as a result of the construction of the Palmetto Bend Dam, which was finished in 1979. The lake serves as a recreational destination for visitors. The dam and the lake are managed by the Lavaca-Navidad River Authority.

Texas Historical Commission Site

Texana, Texas received a Texas historical maker in 1936 at the threshold of the Texas Gulf Coast. The Texas Historical Commission acknowledged the 1832 settlement in Mexican Texas with a 1936 Texas Centennial Marker made of gray granite with a bronze inscription.^[2]

The geographic coordinates place the in situ of the Texas Centennial marker at the access entrance to the Lavaca-Navidad River Authority.

See also

Brackenridge Recreation Complex

References

External links

• Texana, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online
• "Texana Museum". The Story of Texas. Bullock Texas State History Museum.