Tigertown | |
Settlement Type: | Ghost town |
Pushpin Map: | Texas#USA |
Coordinates: | 30.0985°N -96.4552°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Texas |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Washington |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | 1830 |
Extinct Title: | Abandoned |
Extinct Date: | 1900 |
Tigertown, also known as Tiger Point, is a ghost town in Washington County, Texas, United States. It was located on FM 332 Rd before the road descends into the Mill Creek bottoms, approximately six miles from Brenham.[1]
Tigertown was founded before the Texas Revolution. In the 1830s, Phil Coe Sr named the town Tigertown because "he said it was full of men who led fast and furious lives."[2] It had a post office by the 1850s, but nothing remained of the town by 1900. Today, a farm stands on where Tigertown existed.[3] [4]