Anderson Grimes County Cotton Factor Gold

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Anderson Grimes County Cotton Factor Gold

Lost Treasure TX • Grimes County County
Description
Anderson — Grimes County seat — antebellum legend of cotton factors and river traders burying gold on the Navasota River bluffs before the Civil War disrupted Brazos Valley commerce.
Historical Notes
Anderson was the Grimes County seat on the Navasota River, serving planters who shipped cotton down the Navasota and Brazos to Galveston. Fulshear and Fanthorp Inn stagecoach stops linked the town to Houston and Nacogdoches. Planter-class treasure tales describe hiding gold when Union threats or Reconstruction chaos loomed. Grimes County's Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site preserves the 1834 stage stop where specie and mail passed through the Brazos Valley. Coordinates mark Anderson on the Navasota River northwest of Navasota. Private land along the bluffs.
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