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LOLITA, TEXAS. Lolita is on
the Lavaca River two miles north of the site of Philip Dimitt's1830
trading post and four miles south of Lake Texana in southern Jackson
County. By 1840 the area was settled by Isaac N. Mitchell, whose son
later acquired the old George Ewing league and part of the Stephen F.
Austin grant. In 1880 the Mitchell spread was fenced with the first
barbed wire in Jackson County. In 1909 a townsite was laid out and
called Lolita after Lolita Reese, a granddaughter of Texas Revolution
veteran Charles Keller Reese. The St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico
Railway erected a switch in Lolita that year, and the community received
a post office, a store, and a gin. By 1910 the Red Bluff and Lolita
school districts had split, and most of the residents and businesses of
Red Bluff shifted to Lolita. By the end of Word War II Lolita had five
stores and a population of 200. The population crested at 462 in 1969,
at which time seven businesses served the community. By 1988, however,
the number of residents had dropped to 300, and business firms had
dropped to five. In 1990 the population was still recorded as 300.
History from the Handbook of Texas Online
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