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Alabama-Coushatta
Indian Reservation
Where it is: 4,600-acre reservation
on U.S. Highway 190, seventeen miles east of Livingston in
Polk County. Rt. 3, Box 640, Livingston 77351
The Pow-Wow is held during the first weekend
of June each year.
Alabama means: "vegetation gatherers"
Coushatta means: "cane," "reed," or "white
cane"
Language: Muskhogean language stock. Find
out more "ALABAMA-COUSHATTA INDIANS."
The Handbook of Texas
Lake Livingston
Lake Livingston is on the Trinity River six miles southwest
of Livingston in Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, and Walker counties.
Livingston Dam, owned by the City of Houston and the Trinity
River Authority,qv is an earthfill dam with a concrete spillway
and was designed by Brown and Root, Incorporated. The dam
has a spillway crest elevation of 99 feet above mean sea level.
The reservoir has a normal capacity of 1,788,000 acre-feet,
covers 82,600 acres, and drains an area of 16,616 square miles.
Construction of the dam by Forrest and Cotton, Incorporated,
began in 1966 and was completed in 1969. The reservoir is
used for municipal, industrial, and irrigation purposes.
Lake
Livingston State Park*
Lake Livingston State Park is located
on the eastern shore of Lake Livingston. (Wolf Creek Park
is on the Eastern Shore.) In the 452 miles of shoreline, the
park offers facilities for boating, fishing, picnicking, swimming,
water skiing, hiking, and tent and RV camping (fee). For more
information, write: Route 9, Box 1300, Livingston 77351.
Trinity River
The Trinity river is the longest river
having its entire course in Texas. The river flows 423 miles
from the confluence of the Elm and West forks to the coast.
The Trinity River forms three (3) natural county lines:
1. Between Walker and Trinity counties
2. Between Trinity and San Jacinto counties
3. Between San Jacinto and Polk counties
The Trinity is dammed just above Camilla
in San Jacinto County to form Livingston Reservoir.
Polk
County Memorial Museum
One of the finest small museums of local history anywhere!
Outstanding displays feature The Land-Home of Giant Mastodons,
The Native Americans & Pioneers, River Boats on the Trinity
River, The Civil War, Life in the Timber Country, Social Development,
The War Years, Main Street Collection.
*Information gathered from LONE STAR
GUIDES: TEXAS
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