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发帖数: 8308 | 1 SHANGHAI, TEXAS
Texas Ghost Town
Wharton County, Texas Gulf Coast
On the west side of the Colorado River
about one mile from Wharton.
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History in a Pecan Shell
Established in 1899
Located on a spur from the New York, Texas and Mexican Railway in 1899,
Shanghai was planned to become an actual town like Pierce's Station (later
Pierce, Texas). Abel H. "Shanghai" Pierce had contracted with the state of
Texas for convicts to clear the land for the proposed town. The spur was
built to bring in supplies and men. Although a cotton gin was built and
prisoner's quarters erected, Shanghai and another planned town named Borden
(after Pierce's nephew) never really got much beyond the planning stage. |
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