Unsolved:Ottine, Texas
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Short description: Unincorporated community in Texas, US
Ottine is an unincorporated community in Gonzales County, Texas , United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 90 in 2000.[1] It is home to Palmetto State Park, which can accommodate approximately 500 daily campers.[2]
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.[3]
Ottine is home to an urban legend surrounding a bigfoot-like humanoid "swamp thing".[4]
References
- ↑ "Ottine, Texas". The Handbook of Texas online. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hno21. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
- ↑ "Palmetto State Park". Texas State Parks. https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/palmetto.
- ↑ Creuzbaur, Robert. "J. De Cordova's Map Of The State Of Texas". J.H. Colton & Co.. https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~1777~180017:J--De-Cordova-s-Map-Of-The-State-Of.
- ↑ "Swamp Thing of Ottine: Your Friendly Neighborhood Bigfoot" (in en-US). 2018-01-26. http://texashillcountry.com/swamp-thing-ottine-bigfoot/.
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