Freestone County, Texas
Towns



Formation of the town of Flowerdale in 1860


Navarro Express Newspaper of Coriscana, Navarro Co., TX - Mar. 24, 1860 
edition:

A new town site on ten acres of land that would be donated by R. T. Patton, was
the topic of a town meeting called, with citizens from Tahuacana, Caney, and
Richland Creeks on the 17th. Inst. G. B. Coleman was appointed chairman, and W.
T. Patten secretary, and on motion, Flowerdale was unanimously elected as a
site for the town. On motion, Joseph Andrews, G. W. Dunagan, W. T. Patton, Wm.
M. Hines, and Isaac Bird was appointed a committee on resolutions.

The land was situated within 1/4 of a mile of R. T. Patton’s residence, in
Freestone county, near the road leading from Fairfield to Corsicana - 14 miles
from the former, and 18 miles from the latter place, to be styled Flowerdale.
Resolutions were passed and a committee was elected - Rev. T. J. Bonner,
Joseph Andrews, G. B. Colman, W. T. Patten, G. W. Dunagan, Oliver Burleson, W.
W. Coleman, Wm. M. Hines, C. G. Dunagan, and David Burleson.

[This ghost town is suppose to be north of Tehuacana Creek between Streetman
and Kirvin near Patton's Crossing on Big Tehuacana creek.  The post office was
established in April 4, 1856 by Richard T. Patton as postmaster and
discontinued in Nov 5, 1866 with Elizabeth Dunagan as the last known postmaster
of Flowerdale.  Flowerdale appears in the list of post offices in Texas 
furnished by the postmaster of Galveston in December 1, 1856 to Dr. Braham that 
published in "Braman's Information About Texas" printed in Philadelphia in 1857.

The Flowerdale Post Office site was on Tehaucana Creek, FM 80, about 100 yards
west of the now existing bridge, approx. 4.5 miles NW of present Caney Baptist
Church. (H of FC, Vol I, pg. 90)

This vanished community was originally known as Square Hollow (H of FC, Vol I,
pg. 201).]