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Site of Carry Nation's Hotel

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Front Street, East Columbia, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 29° 8' 24.3996", -95° 36' 48.9996"
 
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     During a brief and troubled time in her life, Carry Amelia Moore Nation (1846-1911) operated the Old Columbia Hotel on this site about 1880. She later achieved fame as a hatchet-wielding crusader against the use of alcoholic drink and tobacco. Born in Kentucky to slave-owning parents, Carry Moore and her family moved to Grayson County, Texas, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War. After an unhappy first marriage in Missouri to an alcoholic, she married David Nation in 1877. They acquired 1,700 acres of farmland on the San Bernard River west of here. Unsuccessful at farming and marriage, David moved to Brazoria to practice law, and about 1880 Carry moved here to Columbia to operate the hotel owned by A. R. and Jesse W. Park. Her name is on the Columbia Methodist Church roll. She lived at the hotel with her daughter Charlien Gloyd, Mother Gloyd (Carry's first mother-in-law), and David's daughter Lola. David Nation also operated a saddle shop just southwest of this site. The family soon moved to Richmond, Texas, to operate a hotel, then moved to Kansas in 1889. The Nations were divorced in 1901 after Carry began her crusade against saloons. She lectured at the University of Texas in Austin in 1902 and 1904. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Site of Carry Nation's Hotel Historical Marker Location Map, East Columbia, Texas

 
   
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