Augusta, Texas

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Augusta, Texas
Unincorporated community
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Augusta
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Augusta
Coordinates: 31°31′54″N95°19′51″W / 31.53167°N 95.33083°W / 31.53167; -95.33083
Country United States
State Texas
County Houston
Elevation
374 ft (114 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 430 & 903
GNIS feature ID1384223 [1]

Augusta is an unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas, United States. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 20 in 2000.

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History

On October 18, 1838, the community was the scene of a massacre. Four historical markers stand at the site of the massacre, which took the lives of early settlers and Native Americans. [2]

Geography

Augusta is located on Farm to Market Road 227, 16 mi (26 km) northeast of Crockett in northeastern Houston County. [3]

Education

W.M. Waddell was the teacher at the Augusta Male and Female Academy in 1860. The community had a school in 1885. [3] Local students (if any) go to school in the Grapeland ISD.

Augusta was featured in the Scott Nixon home movie The Augustas . [4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Augusta, Texas
  2. ↑ "Augusta, Texas". Texas Escapes Online Magazine. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Augusta, TX from the Handbook of Texas Online
  4. ↑ Cooley, Heidi Rae (2014). Finding Augusta: Habits of Mobility and Governance in the Digital Era. Dartmouth College Press. doi:10.1349/ddlp.3556. ISBN   978-1-61168-523-7.
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