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ELIZA, TEXAS

Texas Ghost Town
Houston County, East Texas
No Longer on Maps
On the Neches River
5 miles NE of Augusta
NE of Crockett
Population 0

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Although nothing remains today of Eliza, it had its own post office in operation from 1859 through 1871. Eliza seems to have enjoyed its most prosperous years in the 1870s, but it stopped appearing on maps in the 1930s.

Texas - Houston and Trinity County 1940s map

1940s Houston County map showing Augusta
(Above "S" in "H-O-U-S-T-O-N")
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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