Fowlerton Winter Garden Bust Cache — La Salle County

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Fowlerton Winter Garden Bust Cache — La Salle County

Lost Treasure TX • La Salle County County
Description
Fowlerton legend of unrecovered cash from the early twentieth-century land boom — when artesian-well farming collapsed after drought and unsuitable water ruined Winter Garden promoters east of Cotulla.
Historical Notes
Between 1900 and 1910 twenty-three new towns were surveyed in La Salle County; Fowlerton was among those established during the onion-and-irrigation land boom. George Copp planted the county's first Bermuda onions near Cotulla in 1896; T. C. Nye began commercial onion culture near Cotulla in 1898. Water from artesian wells drilled at Fowlerton proved unsuitable for farming. A drought from 1916 to 1918 and falling onion prices crippled undercapitalized settlers, leaving busted boomtown folklore of abandoned strongboxes and unrecovered promotion funds. Coordinates mark Fowlerton in eastern La Salle County on the Winter Garden plain.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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