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Atlanta ~ ca 1868

Located in the extreme southern tip of present-day Caldwell County, approximately at the junction of IH 10 and U.S. Highway 183, Atlanta was first settled by immigrants from Georgia, who thus named the town Atlanta. A private school was established by Dr. Binns and continued until 1887. A public school was created in 1874. Trail drivers moved large cattle herds slightly east of Atlanta and continued northwest, passing below the community known as Plum Creek and continuing northward until the herds joined the Chisholm Trail. Mail was picked up and delivered by stage. When the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad was built in 1874, Atlanta was bypassed. The town slowly died, and the residents moved to Luling, Harwood and Gonzales County. Today only the old Lone Oak Cemetery on a small rise about 1 1/2 miles north of the old town remains to indicate where this early town was located. Some of the residents of Atlanta are buried in this cemetery.

Source - Plum Creek Almanac, Vol 4, No. 2, Fall 1986 and Caldwell County Kin: The First 150 Years published by the Genealogical and Historical Society of Caldwell County, November 2000

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