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


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

Coldspring has a population of 997. 34.7% of Coldspring’s inhabitants are Male, and 65.3 are female. 27.2% of Coldspring is married and 61.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $150,379, and the average rent is $613. Household median income in Coldspring is $36,701, and the individual median income is $22,820. Coldspring’s Ethnic is the following: White(64.4%), Black(29%), Multiple(5.8%), Hispanic(5.6%), Native(0.8%).


The history of Coldspring is linked to Stephen F. Austin's first colony in Texas, which established, among other locales, San Jacinto County. Austin's original colony extended to the Trinity River watershed, roughly along Texas 156, toward Point Blank. After receiving a commission from the Mexican government to settle the town, Joseph Vehlein, a German immigrant to Mexico, deeded 640 acres (2.6 km2) to Robert Rankin, an American Revolutionary officer.


This acreage included the site of Coldspring. The settlement of Cold Springs (old spelling) began around 1850. In 1848, there existed only a trading post called "Coonskin", later "Fireman's Hill" nearby. Coldspring had developed into a bustling county seat town by 1915, but disaster struck March 30, 1915, when the wooden courthouse burned, thus removing the economic foundation of the town.


Plans for the present courthouse were made, and the building was completed in 1918. Thereafter, the townspeople moved their buildings near the new courthouse at its present location. In 1983, San Jacinto County sheriff, James Cecil "Humpy" Parker, was arrested for, charged with, and convicted of six civil rights abuses of suspects using the form of torture called waterboarding and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison but served less than five before his medical release due to brain cancer; he died in 1994.


Parker's son and deputy, Gary, was convicted in 1984 of conspiracy to violate suspects' rights. These incidents were incorporated into a novel by Steven Sellers, Terror on Highway 59 in 1984, which in turn was made into a made-for-television movie, Terror on Highway 91 (1989), starring Ricky Schroder.


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