Details for Millican, C.S.A.

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5041008688

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Marker Number 8688
Atlas Number 5041008688
Marker Title Millican, C.S.A.
Index Entry Millican, C.S.A.
Address
City College Station vicinity
County Brazos
UTM Zone 14
UTM Easting 768266
UTM Northing 3373883
Subject Codes cities and towns; Civil War
Marker Year 1962
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location From College Station take FM 2154 SE approx. 14 miles to the intersection of FM 2154 and FM 159.
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size Other - explain
Marker Text Millican was Texas' northernmost railroad terminus when the war between the states began in 1861. It became a vital Confederate shipping point for the area extending to the Red River on the north and to be frontier settlements in the west. The products of that region moved over the rails of the Houston and Texas Central Railroads from Millican to Houston, Beaumont, Galveston and Alleyton. Confederate troops came by rail to nearby Camp Speight, a training and rendezvous point. Many marched overland from here for duty in Arkansas and Louisiana. Other entrained here for Houston and Beaumont where they borded ships for Neblett's Landing on the Sabine and other devarkation points. During the war cotton from North Texas and the Brazos Valley went to market through Millican to Alleyton, the state's southernmost railroad terminus, where it was transported over the cotton road by wagons and carts to Brownsville and Matamoros, Mexico. Returning wagons and carts brought military supplies and merchandise which eventually reached Millican by rail for wide distribution. Millican, which had been born with the coming of the railroad in 1859, flourished with the railroad, and declined with the northward extension of the railroad that began in 1866.
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