| Marker Number |
3178 |
| Atlas Number |
5239003178 |
| Marker Title |
Macaroni Station |
| Index Entry |
Macaroni Station |
| Address |
|
| City |
Edna |
| County |
Jackson |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
729413 |
| UTM Northing |
3207995 |
| Subject Codes |
Italian immigrants/immigration; railroads; land surveys, land companies, promotional towns |
| Marker Year |
1966 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
Courthouse lawn, SE corner 115 W. Main St., Edna |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" |
| Marker Text |
Forerunner of town of Edna; a camp and commissary during the building of the New York, Texas & Mexican railway, 1880-1882. Count Joseph Telfener, one of the railway investors, brought laborers from his native Italy; station was nicknamed for them. Mrs. Lucy Flournoy in 1882 had townsite surveyed on her land here. The name "Edna" honors a daughter of Count Telfener. The "Macaroni" line built only 92 miles before it dropped plan to extend into Mexico; even so, it aided growth in coastal Texas. Since 1885 it has been in the Southern Pacific system. |
