WAS MOUNTAIN NAMED FOR PENATUHKAH WAR CHIEF SANTA ANNA?
Editor’s note: In Gladys Hunter’s “Historically Speaking: Coleman County, Texas”, she writes: “Santa Anna’s first settler, according to the Handbook of Texas, was Duke Jackson, who grazed his cattle onto this region and built the first cabin in the 1860’s, a community called Gap slowly developed. In 1879 the Gap had a store and post office to supply the cattle drives. When the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroads built through here in1866, settlers moved from the Gap to the railroad, starting present town. When the Gap petitioned for a post office in 1879 it was changed to the two-in-one mountain…Santa Anna.” Jacob C. Walton is listed as the first postmaster, April 7, 1879, followed by W.C. Brooks, May 8, 1879. Relying on this recorded history, we can derive that Santa Anna turned 115 years old on April 7, 1994. Clay P. Morgan… “Santa Anna Beautiful”, written in 1907, tells the Federal census for Santa Anna in 1900 was 736; the Federal census for 1907 was1500. Today, 1994, we stan
