History
Lake Livingston State Park, in Polk County, is located one mile southwest of Livingston and contains 635.5 acres along Lake Livingston, an 84,800-acre reservoir. It was acquired by warranty deed and from private landowners in 1971 and opened to the public in 1977.
The park is located near the ghost town of Swartwout, a steamboat landing on the Trinity River in the 1830s and 1850s and the meeting place of Polk County's first commissioners court before voters selected Livingston as the county seat.
