Wild Cat Bluff is a
ghost town in northwestern
Anderson County,
Texas, United States, and is a part of the
Palestine, Texas
Palestine ( ) is a city in and the seat of Anderson County in the U.S. state of Texas. It was named for Palestine, Illinois, by preacher Daniel Parker, who had migrated from that town.
The city had a 2020 U.S. census population of 18,544, mak ...
micropolitan area.
History
Wild Cat Bluff was located where
Wildcat Creek enters the
Trinity River, and served as a
ferry
A ferry is a ship, watercraft or amphibious vehicle used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi ...
crossing and a
shipping point for area farmers. Wild Cat Bluff thrived while the river served as a main form of transportation, but declined after the arrival of the railroads to the county in 1870. Some of the residents moved to the new community developing to the east.
See also
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Jarvis, Texas
Jarvis is a ghost town in Anderson County, Texas, Anderson County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is a part of the Palestine, Texas Micropolitan statistical area, micropolitan area. Although it is considered a ghost town by the Handbook of Texas, ...
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List of ghost towns in Texas
Images
File:Clairemont Texas Abandoned Jail.jpg, Abandoned jail in Clairemont (Kent County)
File:Benton City Institute.jpg, Abandoned school in Benton City (Atascosa County)
File:Close City Texas abandoned school.jpg, Abandoned school in C ...
References
External links
Wild Cat Bluff, Texas: Handbook of Texas Online, University of Texas at Austin
Ghost towns in East Texas
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