Originally a stop on the Old San Antonio Road, town is tomato-growing center in redland belt. Name derives from Spanish word for “high” (highest point between Angelina and...

Originally a stop on the Old San Antonio Road, town is tomato-growing center in redland belt. Name derives from Spanish word for “high” (highest point between Angelina and Neches rivers).

The grave of Helena Kimble Dill, believed by many to be the mother of the first Anglo child born in Texas (1804) is here. (Jane Long, of Galveston, often is credited as mother of Texas’ first Anglo child in 1821.) Contact local chamber of commerce or park superintendent of Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site for information about other sites of interest in this historically rich area.