Morales - Texas Ghost Town

MORALES

NAME: Morales
COUNTY: Jackson
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 4
CLIMATE: Warm winter, hot summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Winter, spring, fall

COMMENTS: A few current residents.
REMAINS: Cemetery and foundations.

Morales is a ghost town marked only by its cemetery and a few ruined building foundations. Although the town lasted until 1940, it was the lawless element in its early years that prevented growth. A railroad graded a roadbed to Morales but never laid track. It was the criminal aspect of the town that forced the railroad to alter its plans and laid track to more orderly towns instead. The town had its beginning in the late 1840s and had slow but orderly growth until the Civil War. Because of its location in lightly settled ranch country, it attracted the lawless element during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. The rest is history. The town began to deteriorate and when bypassed by the railroad, like many other early towns, its fate was sealed. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth

Morales is a ghost town marked only by its cemetery and a few ruined building foundations. Although the town lasted until 1940, it was the lawless element in its early years that prevented growth. A railroad graded a roadbed to Morales but never laid track. It was the criminal aspect of the town that forced the railroad to alter its plans and laid track to more orderly towns instead. The town had its beginning in the late 1840s and had slow but orderly growth until the Civil War. Because of its location in lightly settled ranch country, it attracted the lawless element during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. The rest is history. The town began to deteriorate and when bypassed by the railroad, like many other early towns, its fate was sealed. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth

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