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Edna is a city and the county seat of Jackson County on the Texas Gulf Coast plain, at the junction of U.S. Highway 59 and State Highway 111.

Edna was established in 1882 when the New York, Texas and Mexican Railway, built from Rosenberg to Victoria, bypassed the old county seat of Texana and laid out a new town on land owned by Lucy Flournoy.

The town was named for a daughter of Italian Count Joseph Telfener, the financier who promoted and built the railroad; his line was nicknamed the 'Macaroni Line' because it was constructed largely by Italian laborers brought from Lombardy.

The first train arrived in Edna on July 4, 1882, and the first child born in the new community was named Edna Louise Traylor.

In an election on January 22, 1883, Jackson County residents voted to move the county seat from Texana to Edna, and Texana soon became a ghost town.

Edna had about 1,000 residents by 1896 and has remained a small agricultural and oil-country city ever since.

The 2020 census counted 5,987 people in Edna, and Census QuickFacts puts the city at about 2,362 households averaging 2.49 persons each, with a 58.1 percent owner-occupied housing rate.

Edna is the gateway to the 11,000-acre Lake Texana, a reservoir on the Navidad River that covers the site of the original town of Texana.

The Historic Texana Church, built in 1859 in old Texana and moved to Edna in 1884, still stands as a link to the county's first seat.