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Alabama,
Texas Centennial Marker
Photo
courtesy Barclay
Gibson, December 2010 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Settled in the 1830s, it served as a river
port and post office (1846) for area residents. It was also the home of antebellum
Trinity College (est 1841).
Commerce on the river was phased out with the
railroad expansion of the 1870s and the town suffered accordingly. By 1878 the
post office had closed and the town was in terminal decline by the 1880s.
Still
there were enough students to warrant a school and the town appeared on maps as
late as the 1940s, even though it was a virtual ghost by the 1930s.
Photographer's
Note:
"There is nothing, nothing, left to identify the townsite of Alabama.
Even so, it qualified for a granite Centennial Marker to be set there back in
1936. Google satellite pictures show that, maybe, the current dirt road (Private
Property) to the marker was the original trail to the ferry crossing as it seems
to pick up on the other side of the Trinity river, in Leon County." - Barclay
Gibson |
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Alabama,
Texas Centennial Marker
Photo
courtesy Barclay
Gibson, December 2010 |
Marker Location
according to THC:
"18 mi. SW of Crockett, FM 132 near Trinity River, on private
land"
Historical Marker TextSite
of the Town of AlabamaImportant
shipping point before the Civil War. Here was established Trinity College, the
first institution of higher education in Houston County. Its charter was granted
on January 30, 1841 by the Congress of the Republic of Texas.
Erected
by the State of Texas 1936 |
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