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Jackson County was organized in 1837 and named for seventh President of the U. S., Andrew Jackson. This region was early hunting grounds of the cannibalistic Karankawa Indians and was crossed in 1528 by the shipwrecked Spaniard Cabeza de Vaca. French explorer La Salle founded the first settlement, the ill-fated Fort St. Louis, in 1685, and some authorities say its site is Dimmitt's Point, 21 miles southwest. Most of what is now Jackson County lay in Stephen F. Austin's land grant. The first town, Santa Anna, was founded in 1832 by six members of Austin's Old 300 colonists, and the town, later named Texana, was the predecessor of Edna.
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