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LINNVILLE,
TEXASTexas
Ghost Town
Calhoun County, Texas Gulf Coast
32 Miles E of Victoria
3.5
miles NE of Port Lavaca and just off FM 1090
On Lavaca Bay at the end of East Martin Road
Population: 0
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Originally
known as New Port, it was named after John J. Linn, a merchant who owned warehouses
here. It was an important port of entry during the 1830s. A community sprang up
around the warehouses owned by Linn and others and by 1839 the population was
estimated at 200. At that time the town even had a hotel for the convenience of
arriving immigrants. All that is left of the town is a marker erected in 1936
commemorating the now famous "Last Raid" of the Comanche Indians.
The
raid which began in the Hill Country, consisted of a seizable group of warriors
who swept down to the coast, attacking settlements along the way, including the
seizable town of Victoria. Linnville
was attacked on August 8th 1840. Many residents fled into the waters of the bay
to escape death and after looting the warehouses in a search for guns, the Comanches
returned the way they came. The Texas militia had formed while the Indians were
at the coast and met them at Plum Creek (near present-day downtown Lockhart).
The resulting Battle of Plum Creek stopped further incursions by the Comanches,
who then retreated far from white settlements.
See Cox's
Point.
Only a single building was left standing in Linnville and residents
fled the site to form the town of La Vaca (today the city of Port
Lavaca). As La Vaca grew, Linnville declined and was soon abandoned.
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