Vienna Texas

Where is Vienna Texas?

Vienna, TX is located at 44°42′13″N 97°30′1″W / 44.70361, -97.50028 (44.703645, -97.500277)

General Information about Vienna, TX

Vienna, Texas is on Farm Road 530 near the Navidad River
ten miles east of Hallettsville in southeastern Lavaca County.
It was settled by Anglo-American planters in 1840.
John Mixon established a store and post office and
suggested the town's name.

Gen. John W. Whitfield,qv one of the first settlers, organized
Whitfield's Legion during the Civil War.
In 1868 German and Bohemian immigrants settled along
the river. Pat Carvell donated land for a school built in 1880,
and Louis Teltschick built a gin and sawmill.

On June 30, 1940, the Navidad overflowed and flooded all
the buildings near its banks. In 1980 through 2000 the
community reported a population of forty.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
T. H. Leslie, The History of Lavaca County Schools (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1935).

For more information, please visit:
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/AG_Publications/pdfs/vienna_guidebook.pdf
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/06-984.ZS.html
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/VV/hnv13.html

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