Millican Confederate Railhead Treasury — Ghost Town

Millican boomed as the Houston & Texas Central railhead advanced north during the Civil War, surpassing Navasota as the end of track. Confederate purchasing agents stockpiled shoes, cloth, and munitions for shipment to Louisiana. After the war yellow fever epidemics devastated Millican; the railhead moved to Bryan and the town was largely abandoned by the 1870s. Treasure tradition holds that merchants buried cash and silver when the plague scattered the population. Modern Millican is a rural crossroads east of College Station. Coordinates approximate the historic townsite along the old H&TC line.