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There's a apparition boondocks in Goliad County. It's accepted as Cologne, Texas -- a association congenital by ex-slaves who capital a boondocks to alarm their own.
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Michael Gibson, KIII 10:54 PM. CST November 06, 2017
CORPUS CHRISTI (KIII NEWS) - There's a apparition boondocks in Goliad County. It's accepted as Cologne, Texas -- a association congenital by ex-slaves who capital a boondocks to alarm their own.
Cologne sits east of celebrated Goliad alogn Highway 59. It was founded in the 1870s by above disciplinarian George Washington and James Smith.
Smith's metal headstone still lies in the association cemetery.
In 1863, President Lincoln had freed the slaves, but it would be two years afore that absolutely happened in Texas. Washington and Smith acquired their abandon and began a affluent business carriage appurtenances from the old anchorage of Indianola over to Victoria.
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When the two had abundant money, they bought some 500 acreage of acreage forth Perdido Creek, which is abutting to abreast Coleto Creek Park and Reservoir.
However, the two would alone advertise acreage to added blacks. Whites were not accustomed to buy there.
"I accept it was a assurance factor, because actuality above disciplinarian they weren't absolutely abiding who was for them or who was adjoin them," Cologne citizen Jimmey Smith-Moultrie said.
Moultrie is a descendent of one of the families who acclimatized Cologne.
"It's one of those affectionate of situations breadth you get goosebumps, you know?" Moultrie said. "Just to apperceive that your forefathers, our forefathers, were allotment of such a amazing effort."
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The association was aboriginal accepted as 'the colony,' again Perdido, Centerville, Ira Station -- and finally, in 1898, in became Cologne.
But breadth did the name appear from?
One adventure is that one of the association capital a column appointment to be congenital there, so he submitted the name Cologne. There was a hog apprehension ability abutting by, and it was anticipation that maybe the name would somehow adverse the aroma advancing from the plant.
Along with that column office, a alternation annex was congenital and one of Moultrie's ancestors was the annex master.
"The trains were a absolutely big change about this allotment of the country because it fabricated busline abundant added available," said Myra Heard of the Goliad Historical Commission. "Everybody rode the trains."
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Once the railroad came through town, the atramentous association accustomed white settlers. There were already a cardinal of churches in abode and anon a few businesses opened, like the Old Rock Store. All of this took abode on acreage that alone a few years ahead had been the home of a cardinal of slaves.
"They fabricated use of all of their ability that they had acquired from actuality above disciplinarian and fabricated that acreage actual productive," Moultrie said.
Cattle is still baron in those genitalia and you can alike airing up to some of the beasts and they'll eat grass appropriate out of your hand. There are still a few homes in the breadth and a cardinal of RV parks accept popped up, and who knows -- maybe Cologne will anon be the centermost of action forth the Coleta Creek Reservoir.
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