Ottine is an unincorporated community in Gonzales County, Texas, United States.[1] According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 90 in 2000.[2] It is home to Palmetto State Park, which can accommodate approximately 500 daily campers.[3]
The mapped record of its area from 1856 indicates Ottine originally began as a former "Beaumont, Gonzales County, Texas" on the San Marcos River, northeast of what is now known-as Belmont, Texas on the Guadalupe River.[4]
Ottine is home to an urban legend surrounding a bigfoot-like humanoid "swamp thing".[5]
Ottine was also once home to a independent school district known as Ottine-Gonzales Independent School District founded around 1933 and in 1939 during the Second World War the Ottine-Luling Independent School District but the 2 districts didn’t work well now Ottine depends on both Luling and Gonzales’s Education
References
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ottine, Texas
- ^ "Ottine, Texas". The Handbook of Texas online. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
- ^ "Palmetto State Park". Texas Parks and Wildlife. Texas State Parks. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
- ^ Creuzbaur, Robert. "J. De Cordova's Map Of The State Of Texas". David Rumsey Map Collection. J.H. Colton & Co. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
- ^ "Swamp Thing of Ottine: Your Friendly Neighborhood Bigfoot". Texas Hill Country. January 26, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
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