The Columbia thickets

Texas · United States · Manor

A lady in a grey taffeta dress, and the hounds of Orozimbo, where Santa Anna was held. They are still waiting.

The country around West Columbia and the old settlement of East Columbia in Texas, with its woods and palmetto thickets, carries a great many accounts.

There is the lady in the grey taffeta dress.

And there are the hounds of Orozimbo Plantation, which still wait for somebody to come back.

Orozimbo is real and so is what happened there. After the Texans destroyed his army at San Jacinto in 1836, Antonio López de Santa Anna, the president of Mexico, was held prisoner at this plantation for months. Men wanted him hanged. He was eventually sent to Washington to meet Andrew Jackson instead.

Columbia was briefly the capital of the Republic of Texas, and the first congress met here in a building that no longer stands.

The land is largely private.

FAQ

Where is The Columbia thickets located?

The Columbia thickets is in Texas, United States.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.