Nacogdoches, Texas, is the oldest town in the State, atleast they claim that. Natchitoches, (pronounced, Na-ca-tish) is the oldest town in Lousiana. The old Indian fable goes like this: The Chief consults his twin sons, who are now of the age to leave the TeePee, by telling them to each go in different ways, the following early morning hours. He tells the blonde headed son to travel east, and at sundown, stop, and start your own family, build your own TeePee. --He tells the dark headed one, to travel west, young man, and do the same thing. The blonde son, whom traveled directly east, named his village area, Natchitoches, of which a few hundred years later, became lousiana The dark headed son, stopped west, at the Nacogdoches area, and so in so. I read this in the Texas Travel Magazine a while back, and we drove our Van, first to Nacogdoches, and looked around then drove east on the rural roads, to Na-ka-tish, La. Both Towns have Universities, Both claim to be the oldest in their areas. Nacogdoches is the much larger of the two. <.bjay<> 'Ya'll take care'' --BJAY--
uh, a blonde headed Native American/Indian ? riiiiiight. and his name was Two Dogs Humping, but that's another story....
I thought Galveston had the title of oldest town in Texas. -- "Wakko" Waco Glenn NTXNS TOMKAT SENS '03 FLSTSI - "BlingBling" (The rare pigs reign) CRABB'04 MAMBM'04 VERMORT14 PHS'04 "I have no interest in being the fastest guy on the road, but I'll be right behind him."
I must correct myself. It seems Galveston is the oldest *port* in Texas. Encyclopedia Britanica says "Regarded as the oldest settlement within the present boundaries of Texas, Ysleta was founded in 1681-82 by Spanish padres and Christian Indians" but that it was on the south side of the Rio Grande and wasn't part of Texas back then. Seems that the river shifted it's banks, became part of Texas, and eventually was swallowed up by El Paso. -- "Wakko" Waco Glenn NTXNS TOMKAT SENS '03 FLSTSI - "BlingBling" (The rare pigs reign) CRABB'04 MAMBM'04 VERMORT14 PHS'04 "I have no interest in being the fastest guy on the road, but I'll be right behind him."
