​Macaroni Station

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Marker Text: Forerunner of town of Edna; a camp and commissary during the building of the New York, Texas & Mexican railway, 1880-1882.
      Count Joseph Telfener, one of the railway investors, brought laborers from his native Italy; station was nicknamed for them.
     Mrs. Lucy Flournoy in 1882 had townsite surveyed on her land here. The name "Edna" honors a daughter of Count Telfener.
     The "Macaroni" line built only 92 miles before it dropped plan to extend into Mexico; even so, it aided growth in coastal Texas.
​     Since 1885 it has been in the Southern Pacific system. (1966) 

Marker No: 3178

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker 

Geographic: 28.979437, -96.645447

Location: Courthouse lawn, Southeast corner 115 West Main Street, Edna