25 Facts About Nacogdoches

Nacogdoches is a small city in East Texas and the county seat of Nacogdoches County, Texas, United States.

Nacogdoches is a sister city of the smaller, similarly named Natchitoches, Louisiana, the third-largest city in the southern Ark-La-Tex.

Nacogdoches remained a Caddo Indian settlement until the early 19th century.

The "town" of Nacogdoches got started after the French had vacated the region, and Spanish officials decided that maintaining the mission was too costly.

Later that summer, Nacogdoches received designation from Spain as a pueblo, or town, thereby making it the first "town" in Texas.

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In 1832, the Battle of Nacogdoches brought many local settlers together, as they united in their stand to support a federalist form of government.

Nacogdoches was president of the Texas Statehood Commission and served as one of the first two Texas U S Senators along with Sam Houston.

Nacogdoches worked to establish Nacogdoches University, which operated from 1845 to 1895.

The Old Nacogdoches University Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Nacogdoches courted Anna Raguet, daughter of one of the leading citizens, but Anna rejected him after finding that he was not divorced from his first wife Eliza Allen of Tennessee.

Nacogdoches was appointed as an agent to trade with the Cherokees and was prominent in providing assistance to the Texas Army during the Revolution.

Nacogdoches contains one of the last surviving family-owned homestead plantations in East Texas, the August Tubbe Plantation, owned and operated by the same family which established it in 1859.

The Tubbe family is considered to be one of the "founding families" of Nacogdoches, making their mark in many ways spanning over 150 years.

However, after the war, Barret returned to Oil Springs, an area about 13 miles east of Nacogdoches, to resume his project by acquiring another drilling contract in 1865.

In 1997, singer Willie Nelson came to Nacogdoches to perform with his friend, Paul Buskirk, a mandolin player.

Nacogdoches experienced the same problems Houston was having because of the unprecedented number of people evacuating the Houston-Galveston area.

Once a Democratic stronghold, Nacogdoches has in recent years moved steadily toward the Republican Party, being represented in the United States Congress and the Texas State Legislature by Republicans.

Nacogdoches has been in the Texas Main Street Program since 1998.

Nacogdoches' downtown was named the "Best Historic Venue" by Texas Meetings and Events magazine.

Nacogdoches was nominated as one of the "Friendliest Towns in America" by Rand McNally and USA Today.

Nacogdoches is the headquarters of the Texas Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, the Air Force Auxiliary.

Economy of Nacogdoches is heavily dependent on Stephen F Austin State University.

Nacogdoches is represented in the Texas Senate by Republican Robert Nichols, District 3, and in the Texas House of Representatives by Republican Travis Clardy, District 11.

At the federal level, the two U S Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz; Nacogdoches is part of Texas's 1st congressional district, which is currently represented by Republican Louie Gohmert.

City of Nacogdoches is primarily served by the Nacogdoches Independent School District.

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