Augusta, Texas

Augusta is an unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 20 in 2000.

History

On October 18, 1838, the community was the scene of a massacre. Four historical markers stand at the site of the massacre, which took the lives of early settlers and Native Americans.

Geography

Augusta is located on Farm to Market Road 227, northeast of Crockett in northeastern Houston County.

Education

W.M. Waddell was the teacher at the Augusta Male and Female Academy in 1860. The community had a school in 1885. Local students go to school in the Grapeland ISD.

In popular culture

Augusta was featured in the Scott Nixon home movie The Augustas.