Jackson County

Jackson County was home to the Karankawa Indians and was granted in part to Stephen F. Austin and to Martin de Leon. It was settled from 1824 to 1835 by colonists largely from Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and, west of the Lavaca, Mexico. It was organized as a municipality on December 5, 1835, named in honor of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, created a county on March 17, 1836, and organized in 1837 with Texana, formerly Santa Anna, as county seat; Edna has been the county seat since 1883. Among those remembered in its early history are John McHenry, Francis M. White, James Kerr, and F. F. Wells, early settlers; William Menefee and Elijah Stapp, signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence; William Sutherland, martyr of the Alamo; George Sutherland, John S. Menefee, and James A. Sylvester, heroes of San Jacinto; and Clark L. Owen, a colonel in the Confederate army, along with other pioneers who lived in the county before or directly after the Texas Revolution. Jackson County has an average altitude of 75 feet and annual rainfall of 37 inches, with black hogwallow, sandy loams, and alluvial soils, and its crops and products include cotton, livestock, corn, dairying, vegetables, poultry, pecans, oil, and gas.

Edna, Texas · United States