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We would like to provide the residents of  Anahuac  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Anahuac Home page. The Anahuac Home page provides as much information as possible on Anahuac. Knowing Anahuac’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Anahuac’s Home page, you will also find Anahuac’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Anahuac has a population of 2174. 52.9% of Anahuac’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.1 are female. 42.6% of Anahuac is married and 55.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $123,461, and the average rent is $854. Household median income in Anahuac is $61,343, and the individual median income is $32,574. Anahuac’s Ethnic is the following: White(59.9%), Hispanic(40.4%), Multiple(17.4%), Black(15.4%), Other(5.7%), Asian(0.9%), Native(0.6%).


The Mexican term Anahuac comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. The name has various meanings, including "center", "world", and "city", but it also means "capital". Anáhuac is the pre-Columbian name of the Valley of Mexico and its former lake basins around Mexico City, often including the Lerma and Pánuco river systems.


Despite the name, neither the city of Anahuac, Texas, nor the immediate region were ever part of the Aztec Empire. The first dwellers in this area were the Atakapan people as well as the Caddo. In 1721, Frenchman Jean Baptiste de La Harpe reached this area. In the 19th century the area became known as "Perry's Point", after Colonel Harry Perry, who erected a military post here in 1816. Two major events in 1832 and 1835, known as the Anahuac Disturbances (caused mainly by rogue bandits termed "Texians" from the Brazos Valley area), helped to precipitate the Texas Revolution that led to the separation of Texas from Mexico.


One of these events was the jailing by Mexican authorities of William Travis for illegal slave importation, and the other was unfair taxation and duties on river traffic to the settlers by the Mexican authorities.In October 1830, Mexican Colonel Juan Davis Bradburn established a customs post atop the same 30-foot (9.1 m) bluff where Perry had camped.


Bradburn's orders specified that the new post be named Fort Anahuac. The soldiers erected two large kilns to produce bricks to build a more permanent fort. Fort Anahuac would still be intact today had it not been for the locals using the bricks for their own home construction soon after the Texas Revolution; virtually all bricks were taken and none remain to this day.


By March 1831, Anahuac comprised 20 houses and seven stores. The town grew quickly. Soldiers were given 25 cents per day to use for food and other supplies, and they spent the money locally. By June 1, the town comprised over 300 civilians and 170 military personnel.In 1862, a small Confederate outpost was established nearby.The 1935 discovery of the Anahuac Oil Field and the Monroe City area oil field brought a period of economic development.


The Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge was established 16 miles (26 km) southeast of the city in 1963 by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. In 1989, the local chamber of commerce organized the first Gatorfest, which attracted 14,000 people into the Fort Anahuac Park, and it has been held annually since then.


The festival has expanded every year since, and in 2010 hosted the largest festival, with more than 30,000 people attending. In 2019, Atlas Air Flight 3591, a cargo flight operating for Amazon Air, crashed in the Trinity Bay, near Anahuac, while flying from Miami to Houston.


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