The Millican Ghost- GONE!!! LbNA #27561 (ARCHIVED)

THE WHOLE CORNER HAS BEEN BULLDOZED! I WILLT RY AND REPLACE THE STAMP IN ANOTHER LOCATION SOON.





Millican is on the Southern Pacific line at the intersection of Farm roads 2154 and 159, between the Brazos and Navasota rivers fifteen miles southeast of College Station in southern Brazos County. The area had been known as Millican since it was settled by Robert Hemphill Millican and his son Dr. Elliott McNeil Millican in the 1820s. By 1845 the place was known as Millican Crossroads. In 1849 the community received a post office, and by 1850 a stagecoach line extended from Houston through Millican. From 1860 to around 1867 the town was the terminus of the Houston and Texas Central Railway; the prosperous community built churches and schools. At this time Millican was reportedly the largest city north of Houston and Galveston.
During the Civil War years the town became the site of a training camp, Camp Millican, for 5,000 Confederate troops. Enlistees arrived by train to this camp that was nothing more than a gathering site. Sometimes recruits were trained here before marching for duty in Arkansas and Louisiana but some went to nearby camps to train. A marker for Camp Millican is across from the Millican Post Office on Highway 159.
In 1864 Millican was incorporated and its population reached 3,000. Millican declined when the railroad resumed its northward expansion to Bryan around 1866; businesses moved north with the railroad. In 1867 the Millican population was further reduced by a yellow fever epidemic. Millican had 1,200 residents in 1868; that year race riots in the community cost more lives. In 1883 the town had a cotton gin, two steam gristmills, four churches, and a school, which in 1904-05 had eighty pupils and two teachers. In the 1920s the Phillips Petroleum Company drilled a 17,000-foot-deep well into a nearby salt dome, but no oil was found. Highway 6 bypassed Millican in 1930, and by 1940 its population had dwindled to 200. In 1990 Millican had a population of 100, a community center, a volunteer fire station, three churches and two cemeteries, a modern post office, and a fertilizer plant.

Daytime in Millican, Texas is just like daytime anywhere else in America but this is a town where undead walk the streets at night. Things happen here that cannot be explained. Not everyone believes in the stories the locals tell but a visit to Millican, Texas will make anyone believe. The ghost of a civil war soldier is often observed sitting in a chair in a house in Millican.


To find the letterbox take the Millican Exit from Highway 6 about 6 miles E of College Station or 10 miles W of Navasota. Take 159 S about 2.5 miles to the intersection of 2154 and 159. Turn right onto 2154 and immediately pull over to the right. Across the road you will see a Historical Marker commemmorating the CSA in Millican.

Cross over and walk to the right of the marker at 200 ° through the woods to a large tree. The box is behind the tree under the stone. Please be careful not to crack the box when replacing the stone.