Atlanta, Caldwell County, Texas

Atlanta is a ghost town in Caldwell County in the U.S. state of Texas. It sits near the current site of Luling in southern Caldwell County.[1]

For the city in Cass County, see Atlanta, Texas.

History

Atlanta started out as a farming community. Its first settlers may have arrived at the area as early as the 1850s. A railroad track was laid in Atlanta by the Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio Railway, in which it started in Columbus, and ended at Luling, which became a new town in 1874. Atlanta became a part of Luling that same time, and it started to disappear afterwards. The settlement had its own school which continued to function until there were new school districts established in Caldwell County in 1887. It did not appear on county highway maps, nor did it have any population estimates at that same time. A copy of its original platting was reproduced in 1986 by the Plum Creek Almanac.[1]

References
  1. Atlanta, TX (Caldwell County) from the Handbook of Texas Online


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