Town of Eagle Lake

Eagle Lake was named for the lake where an exploring party led by Stephen F. Austin killed an eagle in 1821. In 1851, resident Gamaliel Good started a Houston-to-San Antonio stage line with headquarters by the lake, and in 1856 Good and D. W. C. Harris platted the townsite. The Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railroad arrived in 1859. The town was first a cattle and farm market, after 1898 developed rice production, and later ranked as an oil center and a shipper of sand and gravel. It is now known as a fishing and goose hunting mecca. Eagle Lake was also the hometown of Gen. H. H. Johnson, born in 1895, who served as military governor of Rome, Italy, in the 1940s.

Eagle Lake, Texas · United States