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Old Quintana

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Quintana, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 28° 56' 1.5", -95° 18' 26.1972"
 
    Texas State
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    Named for a Mexican general. Early as 1532 a thriving village. Port of entry in . Strategic port in Civil War. Industrial area, cattle and cotton shipping point, 1870-1900. Fashionable summer colony, 1884 and afterwards. Largely destroyed in 1900 storm. Now a resort and fishing center. (1964)

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

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