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Memories of the Lake Mexia Juneteenth Drownings Still Haunt Texas – Texas Monthly


The Ghosts of Comanche Crossing
In 1981 three Black teenagers drowned while in law enforcement custody during a Juneteenth gathering at Lake Mexia. Four decades later, Texas’s proudest Emancipation Day celebration still hasn’t recovered.
Lake Mexia, seen from Booker T. Washington Park, known locally as Comanche Crossing, on April 21, 2021.
Photograph by Michael Starghill
Every Juneteenth, as soon as Pamela Baker got to Booker T. Washington Park, she’d race to the merry-go-round, squeeze through the swarm of shrieking kids, grab one of the shiny rails, and hold on tight. After a few minutes, she would jump off and dart up the steps of the nearby dance hall to survey the throngs below. She and her brother Carl would weave through the crowd, looking for cousins from Dallas and Houston they hadn’t seen since the previous year. Eventually, her whole family would congregate under an oak tree their ancestors had claimed as a gathering place a century before, in t ....

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Loss of library after fire brings Mexia community together in unexpected ways


Loss of library after fire brings Mexia community together in unexpected ways
and last updated 2021-03-18 11:23:29-04
MEXIA, TX — As we saw in the Texas deep freeze a few weeks ago, the loss of an important service can have devastating effects, especially if you live outside one of the major cities in Central Texas.
People in Mexia learned about that loss early one morning when investigators say an arsonist torched the city library.
The sense of loss the city felt prompted them to pull together to recover, and its people learned a lot along the way.
Seven year old Jasmine Escamilla talks about the Mexia library the way some children talk about Disney World. ....

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