Macaroni Station

Historical marker location:

Edna, Texas

( Courthouse lawn, SE corner 115 W. Main St., Edna)

Marker installed: 1966

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.