Indianola

[evil horn]

...my family decided to spend Xmas at my brother's "beachhouse" in Indianola.

anything I should not miss while here?

bbq?
sights?
stores?
the cemetery and LaSalle monument are really cool here. anything else nearby?

driving back to Clear Lake, so this applies for the trip back, too.

 

[TXSNOS]

See if you can find this. . .

Remains of the first La Salle monument near the Indianola Cemetery

 

[Upgrayedd]

My advice to you is that you start drinking heavily.

 

[idigTexas]

We did a drive by on a road trip this past summer. There really isn't anything there other than the monument. The closest town of any size is Port Lavaca. We didn't find much there either, but didn't really take the time to ask for suggestions. As for what's between Indianola and Clear Lake, nothing. Absolutely nothing. My advice is to do nothing and enjoy the hell out of it.

 

[evil horn]

yeah, enjoying the hell out of doing nothing. already finished one book ('slow man' by coetzee). we're doing the drinking and shotgun shooting games right now.

my brother's property line runs along the old bed of the original railroad tracks. crazy to think this place was once one of the bigger ports in Texas before being wiped out.

 

[idigTexas]

Yep. Most of the first inhabitants of Central Texas came here via Indianola. Without the series of tragedies, who knows what it would be today. It would have had an impact on the growth of Galveston and Houston, and would likely encompass the entire peninsula between Port O'Connor, Port Lavaca, and Seadrift. There are a lot of ghost towns, but few were as big and had the promise and potential that Indianola had. It's freaky to think about it.

 

[Upgrayedd]

You could go to Port O'C and take the state ferry boat out to uninhabited Matagorda Island. Amazing, desolate beach.

 

[badexcuse]

Indianola
By Charlie Robison
Tab By jeff_farris@hotmail>Com

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My little brother was just ten years old
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when we hit bad weather and hid in the hole
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we could see texas was only a mile
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and o little brother i remember your smile
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at indianola.....
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my dad built a sawmill of cyprees and stone
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it was here on madena that we made our home
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the year 1850 and i sent for my girl
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o frauline come meet me in this brand new world
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at indianola......
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the war they call civil had barely begun
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me and my cousins decided we'd run
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up through louisianna to meet up with grant
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but one hundred damn rebels shot us there in the sand
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at indianola.....
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they said up in new york the stock market fell
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and the life they was livin was shot all to hell
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but we aint seen nothin no different than dust
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sept the wheels on the wagon all covered with rust
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at indianola.....

instrumental.........
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and that scrape with old hitler was over and done
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and i wondered if i could kill kin with my gun
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but we sat there in paris in a little cafe
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and as they toasted truman i drifted away
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to indianola........
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but its fifty years later and nobody cares
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about some old city that aint even there
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well my sons moved to houston and they work in the gulf
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with seven days on and seven days off
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well i work for the doctor that bought our old ranch
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from first quality federal the forclousure branch
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and he calls me hillbilly and he laughs at my hair
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but the cancer will get him if anythings fair
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and i'll take his ashes and throw from my boat
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as they crossed that ocean i'm going to float
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to find me another indianola......
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indianola........
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indianola........