Jasper Co., TX Cities/Towns/Communities

Place Names, Ghost Towns, & Postal Stations of Today & Yesteryear
NAME	LATITUDE	LONGITUDE	MAP
Aldridge	Aldridge was on the Burr's Ferry, Browndell and Chester Railroad, about seventy miles north of Beaumont in extreme northwestern Jasper County. The area's rich forests attracted outside lumber interests by the late nineteenth century, and the Aldridge Lumber Company, with W. H. and F. W. Aldridge as president and vice president, respectively, had begun operations in Jasper County by 1898. In 1905 the firm increased its property holdings in Jasper and Angelina counties substantially with a large purchase from the Vaughan Lumber Company. The Aldridge mill gained a railroad outlet in 1907 via the BFB&C. On August 26, 1911, fire destroyed the Aldridge sawmill, and company owners went heavily into debt in the process of rebuilding. Although some assistance from the giant Kirby Lumber Company was forthcoming, shipments from Aldridge remained "a disappointment" in 1915. The mill burned again that year, and the post office, opened in 1907, discontinued operations at Aldridge in 1916. With heavy investments in nearby forests, John Henry Kirby^qv remained interested in the Aldridge operations. Indeed, the efforts of the Texas and New Orleans Railroad to extend the old BFB&C line across the Angelina River seemed to spark new life in the region. The Aldridge post office was reopened from 1920 to 1923. However, because loggers had depleted the locally available timber, the railroad spur from Rockland to Turpentine, which passed through Aldridge, was abandoned in 1927, thus destroying all hopes for another recovery at Aldridge. The area has been most noted by subsequent generations for the recreational opportunities at Blue Hole, formed when a stone quarry collapsed during the town's heyday. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kirby Lumber Corporation Papers, Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University. S. G. Reed, A History of the Texas Railroads (Houston: St. Clair, 1941; rpt., New York: Arno, 1981). Robert Wooster
Applegate	Established in early 1900's at the site of a sawmill operated by the Jasper Lumber Company. It was named for a official of the company, H. D. Applegate. Located about seven miles southeast of Jasper. Population of about 300 before the mill was abandoned in 1912. APPLEGATE, TEXAS. Applegate was on the Gulf, Beaumont and Great Northern Railway between Roganville and Jasper in east central Jasper County, about sixty-eight miles north of Beaumont. The railroad was extended north from Roganville into northern Jasper County in 1901-02, thus opening large expanses of timberland to major lumbering operations. As part of this expansion the Jasper Lumber Company, of which H. D. Applegate was an officer, began to acquire large amounts of land in Jasper County. The stop named after Applegate was established sometime after 1905. The Jasper Lumber Company was reorganized as the Texas and Ohio Lumber Company and had extensive property rights in the area as well as 2½ miles of tram lines. The mill at Applegate, however, did not succeed as well as many others in the county. The company went into receivership, and the Applegate post office was discontinued in 1909. The mill at Applegate, which once had a population of about 300, was removed in 1912. Highway and geological survey maps of the 1980s did not designate the site. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Ed Ellsworth Bartholomew, 800 Texas Ghost Towns (Fort Davis, Texas: Frontier, 1971).
Beans Beans Place	also see Horger Beans Place, also known as Beans, Cross, and Horger, is on the west bank of the Angelina River just west of State Highway 63 and twelve miles northwest of Jasper in northwestern Jasper County. It was settled by 1904, when Ira S. Bean built a store and established a post office called Horger, named for John Miller Horger, president of the W. H. Ford Male and Female College at Newton. In 1914 the area had a population of twenty. Because of the name's similarity to the names of the other Texas towns of Spurger and Borger, the United States Post Office Department in 1925 opened a new post office named Bean's Place, and the Horger office closed in 1929. The community's population was recorded as twenty-five from 1934 to 1944. The 1936 county highway map showed scattered dwellings and a campsite on State Highway 63, and in 1948 the community was on a rural mail route. The town was still shown on county maps in the 1980s as Beans Community, but by that time no population figures were available. Diana J. Kleiner
Beech Grove Beach Grove	305121-N	0940716-W	Beech Grove
	Beech (Beach) Grove is south of U.S. Highway 190 and Science Hall, six miles southwest of Jasper in western Jasper County. A post office was established there in 1890. The local school had thirty pupils and one teacher in 1897; by 1905 the community had three schools for white children with 128 pupils and four teachers, and four schools for black children with 207 pupils and four teachers. Beech Grove had a general store and cotton gin in 1914. George W. Smyth lived in the community. A population of seventy-five remained in 1930. Three businesses operated in Beech Grove in 1932, and state highway maps in 1936 showed two cemeteries at the townsite. Beech Grove School was moved six miles northeast to a highway junction in 1937, and the post office moved in 1944 to a new location at Curtis, to the northwest. In the 1980s a town hall, two schools, and a campground remained. Diana J. Kleiner
Bell's Ferry	Bell's Ferry was about eighty miles north of Beaumont in northwestern Jasper County. It crossed the Angelina River above its confluence with the Neches. The Bell's Ferry post office was open from 1889 to 1891. Robert Wooster
Bevilport	305523-N	0940918-W	Pace Hill
	Shipping port on the Angelina River handeling cotton, hides and lumber Community was forerunner of present day Jasper. Seat of Bevil municipality in 1834 and named for John R. Bevil who was a Chief Justice, farmer and Texas Ranger. BEVILPORT, TEXAS. Bevilport (Bevelport) is on Farm Road 2799 and the east bank of the Angelina River nine miles west of Jasper in northwestern Jasper County. It was named for John Bevil,^qv but it should not be confused with the Bevil, Texas, that became Jasper. Bevilport was a river-navigation point from 1830 to 1860. Sam Houston^qv purchased the first lot in the townsite. The community had a population of 140 by 1831 and was noted for bustling docks, which shipped East Texas cotton and hides to New Orleans. A mail station operated at Bevilport in 1835, and the community was incorporated by the Congress of the Republic of Texas^qv on June 5, 1837. The town had a hotel and main street by the 1850s and served as a business and social center until the Civil War.^qv It was a freight depot for northern Jasper County during high-water seasons. In the 1870s the town declined when logging for the Beaumont sawmills impeded river transportation on the Neches River below its confluence with the Angelina. A post office, established in 1854, was discontinued in 1866, reopened in 1897, and closed permanently in 1899. In the 1890s the community had a general store and a population of 100. A historical marker was erected at the site in 1936, but by 1948 only two old store buildings and the home of Randolph C. Doom,^qv built in 1852, were still standing. In the 1980s two nearby churches and scattered dwellings remained to mark the townsite. Bibliography: William Seale, Texas Riverman: The Life and Times of Captain Andrew Farney Smyth (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966). Marie Smith, comp., Historically Marked Sites in Jasper County (Jasper, Texas: Jasper County Historical Commission, 1979).
Bessmay	302745-N	0935711-W	Buna
	John Henry Kirby built a small sawmill here in 1900. He named the settlement for his only daughter, Bessmay. A post office was established here on Sep. 16, 1903. A fire burned the mill in 1949. ------------ Bessmay is on U.S. Highway 96 one mile north of Buna and thirty-seven miles north of Beaumont in south central Jasper County. The construction of the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railway from Silsbee to Kirbyville in 1895 and the Orange and Northwestern from Orange to Newton between 1902 and 1906 opened the area to extensive lumbering operations. Bessmay is named for the daughter of John Henry Kirby,^qv whose mill opened at the site in the early 1900s. The Bessmay post office began operations in 1903. By 1904 Kirby inspectors called the Bessmay facility, with planer, sawmill, and kiln, "the best owned by the company." Mill R, as the plant was called, was equipped with modern conveniences, including an electric light plant, and was valued at $350,000 in 1907. In 1914 a Kirby manager noted that the sawmill, which could cut 130,000 board feet in a single ten-hour shift, was "running day and night." As forests were depleted and lumbering operations consolidated at Silsbee, the old sawmill town of Bessmay lost some of its population, from 600 in 1949 to 400 by the mid-1960s. However, logging remained important in the local economy. The Bessmay election precinct was consolidated with that of Buna in 1956. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kirby Lumber Corporation Papers, Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University. S. G. Reed, A History of the Texas Railroads (Houston: St. Clair, 1941; rpt., New York: Arno, 1981). Robert Wooster
Blox	305826-N	0935830-W	Jasper East
	Located in the southeast part of the county. Named for Ed Bloxom, a clerk for the Kirby Lumber Company, which established a logging camp here. The sawmill bosted of cutting 10 million board feet a month and had a population of 1,500 at one time. The sawmill closed in 1933 and the town was abandoned. ----------- Blox was on a small rise four miles north of Jasper and seventy-seven miles north of Beaumont in north central Jasper County. The settlement was named for Charles or E. D. Bloxsom, officers with the Kirby Lumber Company, which had established a logging camp at the site by 1919. That same year a post office was opened there. To house the new workers the Kirby company moved in numerous vacant buildings from Kirbyville. At the height of the local logging activity Blox had a population of some 1,200, about a third of whom were black. Most Blox residents went to Jasper for entertainment. As the locally available hardwoods and pines were cut out, lumbering operations were gradually shifted to New Blox, a logging camp twenty miles to the northwest. The Blox election precinct, established in 1922, was abolished in 1926. In 1931 the community's post office was discontinued, and the old town was completely torn down and moved to New Blox. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jasper County Scrapbook, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Kirby Lumber Corporation Papers, Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University. Robert Wooster
Bon Ami	304248-N	0935257-W	Kirbyville
	Orginally known as Leeton. Sawmill built here by Lee-Irvine Lumber Company in 1901. The town's postmaster renamed it in honor of a Lousiana community. ---------- Bonami is on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway sixty miles north of Beaumont in east central Jasper County. It was established in 1901 when the Lee-Irvine Lumber Company built a sawmill on the rail line, then named the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City. The site was first called Leeton for one of the partners, D. J. Lee, but was renamed Bonami in 1902 by the first postmaster, R. J. Cooper, for a Louisiana town of the same name. The sawmill, which had a daily capacity of 25,000 board feet, was sold to the Bleakwood Lumber Company the following year. L. S. Bean managed the Bonami mill. The Bonami post office closed in 1914, and the following year Bean sold an edger, saw, and engine in storage at Bonami to J. J. and V. S. Bean. Presumably using this equipment, the Bonami mill resumed operations that lasted until 1929, when the installations were removed. A rural community remained, and in 1948 the population was 200. In 1986 Bonami had no apparent community center but was marked by an abandoned sawmill and the Freewill Baptist Church. Logging, a sand and gravel operation, and chicken and stock raising were the chief economic activities. Robert Wooster
Browndell	310632-N	0935746-W	Harrisburg
	Established in 1903 by the Kirby Lumbering Company when they built a sawmill on Mill Creek. It was named for John Wilcox Brown, president of the Maryland Trust Company and his wife, Dell. They were friends & investors of John Henry Kirby. The sawmill was distroyed by fire in 1925 and the community of around 1000 persons soon declined. PO Aug. 14, 1903 - May 31, 1928. ----------- Browndell is at the junction of Farm Road 1007 and U.S. Highway 96, in extreme northeastern Jasper County eighty-five miles north of Beaumont. The area, in the vast East Texas piney woodlands, became accessible to large-scale lumbering operations with the construction of the Gulf, Beaumont and Great Northern Railway north of Roganville in the early 1900s. The Kirby Lumber Corporation built a sawmill in northeastern Jasper County shortly thereafter, and the mill site was called Browndell in honor of Dell Brown, the wife of one of John Henry Kirby's^qv financial backers. The Browndell post office opened in 1903 and was discontinued in 1928. By 1904 an enthusiastic Kirby Corporation official dubbed the Browndell plant, with kilns, planer, and sawmill, "one of the company's most successful and economic mills." Ten years later the facility, known as Mill S, could reportedly cut 75,000 to 80,000 board feet of lumber every ten hours. The 1925 fire that destroyed the mill threatened the continued existence of the Browndell community. Its population, once estimated to be about 900, fell to below 200 by the mid-1940s. The community's economy was revitalized, however, after the completion of the Sam Rayburn Reservoir opened up new recreational opportunities in the area. Browndell residents voted to incorporate in 1968. By the mid-1980s the community's population had increased to more than 225; in 1990 it was reported as 192. Robert Wooster
Buna	302558-N	0935744-W	Buna
	Buna is at the junction of Farm roads 253 and 1004, U.S. Highway 96, and State Highway 62, thirty-six miles north of Beaumont in south central Jasper County. The Beaumont Lumber Company mill in southern Jasper County was first called Carrolla for the Carroll family, prominent Beaumont lumbermen and industrialists. The site was subsequently renamed Buna, however, in honor of one of the family's cousins, Buna Corley. A post office was established there in 1893. With substantial operations in Jasper County underway by 1890, the Beaumont Lumber Company built a tram road from Buna to Ford's Bluff, on the Neches River. John Henry Kirby later bought the ten-mile-long tram line and by 1896 had converted it to a common carrier and extended it to Beaumont in the south and Roganville in the north. The revamped railroad was called the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City. Buna's economic position was solidified in 1902, when the Orange and Northwestern Railway linked the logging town with Orange. Four years later the Orange and Northwestern was extended from Buna to Newton. A townsite situated between the two railroad lines was platted on July 21, 1916. Although the region's economy suffered as the virgin forests were reduced, in later years second-growth timber continued to provide local jobs. In addition to logging, farming remains important to local residents. Numerous oilfields, first discovered in 1948, lie to the west and north of Buna and further augment the local economy. The weekly East Texas News was founded at Buna in 1967. The population of Buna was estimated at 650 in the early 1940s, 1,650 by the early 1970s, 2,000 in 1985, and 2,127 in 1990. BIBLIOGRAPHY: S. G. Reed, A History of the Texas Railroads (Houston: St. Clair, 1941; rpt., New York: Arno, 1981). Robert Wooster
Bunkerhill	302349-N	0935633-W	Buna
	Bunker Hill, on State Highway 62 in southeastern Jasper County thirty-three miles northeast of Beaumont, was named for the Massachusetts hill of Revolutionary War fame. After the construction of the Orange and Northwestern Railway from Orange to Buna in 1902, a loading switch was laid at Bunker Hill for locally cut timber. A post office was established there in 1910. Although that office was discontinued in 1915, Bunker Hill was also the site of a Western Naval Stores turpentine camp, abandoned in 1918, and a Texas Company (later known as Texaco) pumping station, closed in 1943. The first producing well in the Bunker Hill oilfield was drilled in 1960. Additional small deposits were found during the next two decades. In 1986 scattered buildings and the "Bunker Hill Ranch" marked the rural community. An abandoned sawmill lay slightly to the west. Most of the area was being used as pastureland. Robert Wooster
Call Junction	303532-N	0935456-W	Call Junction
	Call Junction is at the intersection of Farm Road 1004 and U.S. Highway 96, forty-five miles north of Beaumont in extreme east central Jasper County. The area around Call Junction and Call, its sister community in Newton County, was developed by lumberman George Adams, who named the site after business associate Dennis Call. Adams and Call joined M. T. Jones in organizing the Cow Creek Tram Company, which built a sawmill at the Call site in 1895, using the newly constructed Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railway to ship its product. With the subsequent completion of the Orange and Northwestern Railway in 1906, the station on the GB&KC line took the name Call Junction. Both Call and Call Junction depended heavily on the sawmill, which was located in the Jasper County section of Call. Nonetheless, Call Junction had a separate post office from 1908 to 1927. It also was organized as a voting precinct in March 1912. The local mill closed in 1953, but Call Junction still reported fifty residents during the early 1970s. The discovery of oil to the south, at the Call, Call Junction, and Sally Withers fields, with new wells dug between the 1930s and the 1970s, gave the community new economic impetus. In 1990 its population was still reported as fifty. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Newton County Historical Commission, Glimpses of Newton County History (Burnet, Texas: Nortex, 1982). Robert Wooster
Cario Cario Springs	A logging camp in the 1870's established by the Texas Traqm and Lumber Company. Post office closed in 1892. --------- Cairo Springs, also known as Cairo, is between Farm Road 1004 and the Neches River seven miles northwest of Buna and forty-three miles north of Beaumont in southwestern Jasper County. To serve the heavy river traffic a post office operated at Cairo from 1858 to 1866 and reopened in 1872. The Texas Tram and Lumber Company established a logging camp in 1876 near Yellow Bluff, which overlooked the Neches River. By 1877 Long and Company was leasing the Yellow Bluff Tramway, which extended three miles into Jasper County to Cairo. The following year, about sixty men were employed in the Cairo-Yellow Bluff vicinity, cutting timber near Cairo, shipping it along the tram line to Yellow Bluff, then floating the logs down the Neches River to Beaumont sawmills. Machinery for the Texas Tram and Lumber Company mill at Cairo was sent upriver from Beaumont in 1881. Although headquarters were moved to Magnolia Springs in 1882, the logging camp at Cairo continued until 1894. With the depletion of local timber and the coming of the railroads to Jasper and Tyler counties, the camp was abandoned, and the post office closed in 1895. The Cairo Springs church and Cairo Springs lookout marked the old site in 1990. The Sally Withers and Sally Withers Lake oilfields, first discovered in 1956 and expanded in 1961 and 1977-79, lie just to the southeast of the Cairo Springs site. BIBLIOGRAPHY: W. T. Block, ed., Emerald of the Neches: The Chronicles of Beaumont from Reconstruction to Spindletop (Nederland, Texas: Nederland Publishing, 1980). Robert Wooster
Collins	310004-N	0935828-W	Harrisburg
	Collins was on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway seventy-five miles north of Beaumont in north central Jasper County. The rail siding at Collins was established before 1918 on the Gulf, Beaumont and Great Northern Railway and was reportedly named after a black settler, Sebe Collins. In 1984 the railroad siding and a small gravel pit marked the locale. Robert Wooster
Cross	see Beans Place
Curtis	305516-N	0940352-W	Jasper West
	Curtis is at the junction of State Highway 63 and Farm Road 777, eighty miles north of Beaumont in central Jasper County. It was known as Byerly's Gin until the mid-1940s, when the Beech Grove post office was moved to the site and renamed after the son of postmaster Adam Byerly. The Jasper-Newton Electric Cooperative maintained a suboffice at Curtis by 1948, when the community's population was estimated to be 150. In 1986 Curtis had several residences, a church, a store, and a small helicopter plant. Robert Wooster
De Zavala	Navigation seat on the Angelina River and overland stage stop on the Morris Ferry Road and Old Beef Trail. Incorporated by act of the Republic of Texas on Dec. 24, 1838. Was chosen as headquarters for Empresario Lorenzo de Zavala's colony in East Texas. A town with laid out streets and blocks and having a courthouse and post office. The town was distroyed by fire in the 1840's.
Dryburg	also see Harrisburg Dryburg was just across the road from Harrisburg to the east and 8½ miles northeast of Jasper in northeastern Jasper County. The Dryburg post office operated from 1912 to 1938 and served Harrisburg, as well as scattered rural inhabitants of northeast Jasper and northwest Newton counties. Dryburg was named by early settlers for the voting proclivities of its residents (who voted dry) and for its relative lack of rainfall. The 1971 county highway map showed no buildings at the site. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Fred I. Massengill, Texas Towns: Origin of Name and Location of Each of the 2,148 Post Offices in Texas (Terrell, Texas, 1936). Robert Wooster
Ebenezer	310216-N	0940939-W	Ebenezer
Eclipse	304509-N	0935840-W	Roganville
Erin	304646-N	0935948-W	Roganville
	Erin is on Walnut Creek at the intersection of Farm roads 252 and 1005, eleven miles south of Jasper in central Jasper County. Another Erin, also known as Richardson's, Jasper's Mills, and Evadale, was located on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the Neches River in southwestern Jasper County and had a post office from 1847 to 1862. Apparently this office was discontinued during the Civil War. The present Erin appeared in 1882. It has also been known as Faircloth, for its first postmaster, and Big Creek, a name for which application was made to postal officials. In 1885 the community had a population of 100, three churches, and two steam sawmill-cotton gins and shipped wool, hides, and cotton. By 1896 it had one general store and a population of fifty, which shrank to thirty-five by 1914; the post office was discontinued in 1923. The cotton gin was discontinued under the acreage-reduction program in 1935. State highway maps of 1936 showed a cemetery, a school, and scattered dwellings at the townsite. In 1934 Erin had a population of forty and a business. The population was estimated at fifty in 1949, but was no longer recorded after 1953. In 1984 Boyen Cemetery, two buildings, and scattered dwellings remained at the townsite. Diana J. Kleiner
Evadale	302117-N	0940421-W	Evadale
	Evadale is at the junction of U.S. Highway 96 and Farm roads 105, 1131, and 2246, twenty-five miles northeast of Beaumont in southwestern Jasper County. During the 1830s and 1840s the site was called Richardson (Richardson's) Bluff, for early settler Benjamin Richardson, who operated a ferry on the Neches River and who also served as postmaster in 1839. Town lots for the area were listed in county tax rolls as early as 1859. After Richardson's death in 1849, the land was sold to John A., Philip U., and Charles T. Ford. At this time the site was often referred to as Ford's Bluff. Hoping to establish a sawmill, Philip Ford went to New Orleans to buy machinery but contracted yellow fever there and died shortly after returning to Jasper County. Nonetheless, Ford's Bluff became an important collection point for logs, which were floated down the river to Beaumont mills. In 1893 John Henry Kirby^qv chartered the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railway and rebuilt a tram line that already ran from Ford's Bluff to Buna as part of his larger common carrier project. Kirby renamed the site for Miss Eva Dale, a teacher at Jasper's Southeast Texas Male and Female College, and constructed a mill there by 1904, when the post office was established. By 1914 the Evadale plant, known as Mill U, included kilns, a circular sawmill, and a planing mill with a daily capacity of up to 70,000 board feet. Evadale had a population of 300 by 1920. The Kirby mill closed during the Great Depression,^qv and by the late 1940s the town's population had fallen to 100. Economic revitalization began in 1948, when the Champion Paper and Fiber Company acquired riverfront acreage for a pulp mill. By the 1970s the giant Temple-Eastex pulpwood and paper mill dominated the local economy. With the new activity, the population in Evadale reached 700 by the early 1960s. In 1984 the town had twenty-two businesses and an estimated 715 residents. In 1990 its population was 1,422. BIBLIOGRAPHY: James M. McReynolds, A History of Jasper County, Texas, Prior to 1874 (M.A. thesis, Lamar State College of Technology, 1968). S. G. Reed, A History of the Texas Railroads (Houston: St. Clair, 1941; rpt., New York: Arno, 1981). Kathleen E. and Clifton R. St. Clair, eds., Little Towns of Texas (Jacksonville, Texas: Jayroe Graphic Arts, 1982). Robert Wooster
Evadale (Old)	Sawmill settlement on the east side of the Neches River established around the turn of the century. In 1931 the sawmill was dismantled.
Ferguson	310209-N	0940821-W	Ebenezer
	Ferguson, south of Turpentine in northwestern Jasper County, was established in 1928 as a postal stop for the nearby lumber camp at New Blox and named for W. A. Ferguson, its first postmaster. The population at Ferguson grew to about fifty before New Blox was abandoned by the loggers in the mid-1930s. The Ferguson post office was removed in 1933. By 1949 Ferguson was no longer listed in the Texas Almanac's list of towns and post office villages. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jasper County Scrapbook, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Robert Wooster
Forbes	303033-N	0935538-W	Call Junction
Ford's Bluff	Forerunner of Evadale . Named for three brothers named Ford. They bought the site in 1851 and planned to build a sawmill, but after one brother died of a fever, the other brothers left the area.
Friendship	304654-N	0935226-W	Newton West
Gist	301627-N	0935420-W	Gist
	J. W. Gist laid out and named this site about 1906 on the site of Slade's logging camp. In 1912, the Trammil Lumber Company had a mill here. ------------ Gist, on State Highway 62 in extreme southeastern Jasper County ten miles northwest of Orange, was named for developer J. P. Gist. It served the sawmills and logging camps set up along the Orange and Northwestern Railway, which was completed from Orange to Buna in 1902. C. E. Slade operated lumber camps along the Newton-Jasper county line near Gist as early as 1903. A post office opened at Gist in 1912; that same year Gist granted S. M. Tomme and Sons the privilege of building a saw and planing mill, houses, and logging roads at the locale. In 1922 the Sabine and Neches Valley Railway linked Gist to Deweyville, thus providing additional outlets for local timber production. Gist's population was estimated at forty by the early 1940s. Although the Sabine and Neches Valley line was abandoned in 1945, the population of Gist was reported as sixty as late as 1968. The Gist sawmill and a church marked the dispersed community in 1986. Robert Wooster
Grange	*see Holly Springs*
Harrisburg	310042-N	0935323-W	Harrisburg
	Established in 1840 and named for a pioneer family named Harris which has descendants still living there today. Later known as Dryburg because of the reputation of being the driest spot in the county and because the name Harrisburg duplicated another post office. After the Dryburg post office was closed, the place returned to being called Harrisburg. PO Feb. 7, 1912 and discontinued between June 1, 1933 and June 1, 1936. Harrisburg is on Farm Road 1738 and the Newton county line, ten miles northeast of Jasper in a heavily forested area of northeastern Jasper County. In 1909 it acquired a third-class county road to Horton, known as the Old Lumber Road. The improved transportation allowed local citizens greater access to the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railway. A post office, called Dryburg, served the community from 1912 until the late 1930s. Scattered buildings were marked at the site in 1984. Robert Wooster
Harveytown	310436-N	0940850-W	Ebenezer
Holly Springs	305349-N	0935302-W	Jasper East
	First site named Holly Springs was settled in 1850 in Newton County. After the Civil War, the post office was moved to a new site in Jasper County. The post office was discontinued in 1928. Holly Springs, also known as Grange, is on U.S. Highway 190 seven miles southeast of Jasper in extreme eastern Jasper County. It was settled in 1850 four miles east of its present location in what was then Newton County. After the Civil War^qv the postmaster of the Holly Springs community moved to a new home on the Jasper-Newton road, and the post office was transferred to Jasper County. By 1890 the community had a gristmill and gin and a general store, and by 1896 it had a population of 100, three churches, three flour mills and gins, a cotton gin, a general store, and a district school with forty pupils and one teacher. The Holly Springs post office operated from 1900 to 1901, closed for a year, and operated again from January through November of 1902. In 1905 the community had two schools with two teachers and forty-one white pupils, and one school with two teachers and eighty-two black pupils. The 1936 county highway map showed a school, two churches, and two factories in the community. Holly Springs reported a population of fifty from 1943 to 1990. Diana J. Kleiner
Homer	305835-N	0941215-W	Pace Hill
Horger	A store was built here in 1903 by Ira S. Bean. He established a post office named Horger for James M. Horger, president of the W.H. Ford Male and Female College at nearby Newton. It continued to be known as Horger from 1893 to 1897. It seems that there was some confusion because of the similarity of it's name with Spurger and Borger and the postal department requested a name change. The name of Beans Place was chosen. So the Post Office was known as Horger from Sept. 2, 1903 until Aug. 1, 1929. It was known as Beans Place from then until it was closed by 1933.
Horton Horton Switch	310413-N	0935746-W	Harrisburg
	Horton, also known as Horton Switch, is on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway eighty miles north of Beaumont in north central Jasper County. A railroad loading switch for logs cut in the vicinity was established there after the Gulf, Beaumont and Great Northern Railway built through northern Jasper County from 1901 to 1903. The switch was presumably named for F. D. Horton, conductor and general construction foreman for the railroad. The Horton siding, a variety of scattered buildings and gravel pits, and the Horton lookout tower, three miles to the south, marked the area in the mid-1980s. Robert Wooster
Huff Creek	305613-N	0935315-W	Jasper East
Indian Creek	Also known as *Peachtree. Near Bevilport* where Indian Creek flows into the Angelina River. Known for its excellent school, church & cemetery.
J & E Junction	304008-N	0935322-W	Kirbyville
Jasper	305512-N	0935947-W	Jasper East
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Johnson Johnson's Camp Johnson's Switch	Sawmill settlement around 1905. One time population around 300. Sawmill dismantled in the 1940's. --------- Johnson, also known as Johnson's Camp or Johnson's Switch, was on the Orange and Northwestern Railway in eastern Jasper County. The camp was established in 1906 soon after the completion of the railroad and named after its logging contractor, Ben Johnson. The Johnson camp was used to log for the Miller-Link Lumber Company and had a peak production of twenty-five carloads of timber a day. The camp's population numbered between 250 and 300. The camp was dismantled in 1910, and by 1949 the site was part of the Henderson-Lanier Ranch. No evidence of the lumbering facilities remained in 1986. Robert Wooster
Keithton	305158-N	0935524-W	Roganville
	Keithton is on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway seventy miles north of Beaumont in central Jasper County. It was one of several railroad sidings established along the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe line in this area and was named for Beaumont lumber magnate J. Frank Keith, who purchased nearby timber rights about 1912. By 1918 the Keithton siding appeared on official railway maps. Although not populated, the site continues to be marked on United States Geological Survey maps as well. Robert Wooster
Kirbyville	303937-N	0935333-W	Kirbyville
	Kirbyville is on Trout Creek, U.S. Highway 96, and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, eighteen miles south of Jasper in east central Jasper County. It was first named Kirby, for John Henry Kirby,^qv by W. C. Averill, then treasurer of Kirby's railroad, the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City line between the Neches and Sabine rivers. The town was established and laid out by R. P. Allen of Galveston in 1895, when the railroad reached the site where Kirby planned to develop a community to facilitate marketing lumber from his extensive timber holdings. The first lots were sold on May 1, 1895. That year a post office was established, and the name was changed to Kirbyville when postal officials discovered another town called Kirby. In 1896 the local schools had seventy-five pupils and one teacher, and the community had four general stores, a hotel, and a population of 300. Kirby sold his railroad to the Santa Fe (see ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY SYSTEM) in 1900, and after 1904 the town served as the Texas terminus of the Jasper and Eastern Railway. In 1905 the local white school had 320 pupils and one teacher, and the local black school had sixty-five pupils and one teacher. By 1914 the community reported 2,900 residents, two banks, five general stores, and the Kirbyville Banner, founded in 1902. Although a downtown district developed on the east side of town near the railroad station in the early 1900s and shifted settlement away from the sawmill site, Kirbyville became a typical company town after Kirby formed the Kirby Lumber Company in 1901. The founder's public charities included provision of teachers' salaries for a night school program for children of the poor and lots donated for the building of a church. At the peak of the company's lumber manufacturing and exporting trade activities, between 1910 and 1920, the firm had twelve operating mills, five logging camps, and about 16,500 employees. Though the city became part of an area of timber conservation in 1926 and State Forest No. 1 was established three miles east of town in the mid-1920s, the 1920s and 1930s left much of the area cut over, with stumps visible for miles. Because of local farming, the community came to be known as the "home of the Satsuma oranges" and grew into a cotton market and trade center for the central parts of both Jasper and Newton counties. In 1928 Kirbyville had a planing mill, two branches of the Santa Fe line, the Magnolia Natural Gas Company gas plant, and a population of 2,000 engaged in cattle raising, dairying, and other diversified farming in addition to lumbering. The main offices of the Jasper-Newton Electric Cooperative Association were in the town, and three local sawmills had a combined daily capacity of 40,000 board feet and shipped fifteen cars of pulpwood monthly. The town reported a low of 1,088 residents and forty-one businesses in 1944 and a high of 2,161 residents and ninety-two businesses in 1982. In 1990 it reported sixty-six businesses and a population of 1,952 and served as a trade center for Jasper and Newton counties. Residents were self-employed in small businesses or commuted to out-of-town jobs at the Evadale papermill, the Kirby plywood mill at Fayewell in Newton County, or the chemical and petrochemical plants in the Beaumont and Orange areas. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Beaumont Enterprise, May 31, 1936. Thomas H. and Sue Guderjan, Kirbyville (1982). George T. Morgan, "The Gospel of Wealth Goes South: John Henry Kirby and Labor's Struggle for Self-Determination," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 75 (October 1971). Marie Smith, comp., Historically Marked Sites in Jasper County (Jasper, Texas: Jasper County Historical Commission, 1979). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Diana J. Kleiner
Leeton	see Bon Ami
Le Verte	303146-N	0935539-W	Call Junction
Lewis Ferry	Established as a ferry landing in 1856 on the old Beef Tril and Angelina River, just north of old De Zavala. Had a post office as late as 1870, but was discontinued and ferry service abandoned about 1904. ---------- Lewis Ferry was on the Neches River, above its confluence with the Angelina River, seventy-five miles north of Beaumont in extreme northwestern Jasper County. The Lewis Ferry post office operated from 1859 to 1912, when the end of the steamboat era in Southeast Texas saw the abandonment of several Neches River ferries, among them Lewis Ferry. The ferry was probably named for Martin B. Lewis,^qv a prominent figure in antebellum Jasper County. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Robert Creuzbar, comp. J. De Cordova's Map of the State of Texas (Sam Houston Regional Library, Liberty, Texas, 1849). Edna McDaniel White, East Texas Riverboat Era and Its Decline (Beaumont, 1965). Robert Wooster
Magnolia Springs	304407-N	0940135-W	Magnolia Springs
	Magnolia Springs is on Farm Road 1005 and Wright Creek twelve miles south of Jasper in west central Jasper County. It was named for the springs and magnolia trees at the site. The area was first settled by Alexander and Sherod Wright, who arrived around 1824. A widely scattered settlement, known as Pinetucky, developed along a section of the Wiess Bluff-Jasper Road; the settlement began near Sherod Wright's homestead and ran to a point north of what is now the site of Magnolia Springs. The town name was changed to Magnolia Springs when a post office by that name was established in 1850; the office operated until 1866 and again after 1868. Farms gradually replaced the antebellum plantation system, and in 1882 the Texas Tram and Lumber Company moved its logging camp to the springs and floated logs down the Neches River from Wright's landing. In 1885 the community had a population of sixty, a grist and saw mill, a church, a general store, and a district school; at that time the town shipped cotton and timber. In 1894 the local lumber-camp personnel and installations were moved to Kirbyville, drawing major industry away, but by 1896 the population of Magnolia Springs had reached 100. After 1900, as businesses moved away from the creek, the alternate name of Pinetucky passed from usage. The community was largely disbanded by 1905, though the local schools still drew students from a wide area. That year there were three white schools with three teachers and ninety-seven pupils, and three black schools with three teachers and 132 pupils. The cotton gin was discontinued in 1935, and the 1936 county highway map showed three churches, two schools, a factory, a cemetery, and a camp in the vicinity. The Horn Lumber Company operated a sawmill there from 1933 to 1946, when its installations were removed. The population at Magnolia Springs rose from fifty in 1925 to a high of 150 in 1946, when the community reported five businesses. The number of residents fell to eighty by 1950 and remained at that level until 1965, after which it was no longer recorded. In the 1980s the county highway map showed three churches, a post office, a grain elevator, and two cemeteries in the community. BIBLIOGRAPHY: William Seale, Texas Riverman: The Life and Times of Captain Andrew Farney Smyth (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966). Marie Smith, comp., Historically Marked Sites in Jasper County (Jasper, Texas: Jasper County Historical Commission, 1979). Diana J. Kleiner
Morris Ferry	Turpentine gathering camp located on the Angelina River founded about 1916. Abandoned in 1920's. ------------- Morris Ferry was on the Angelina River fourteen miles northwest of Jasper in northwestern Jasper County. As early as 1907 the Jasper County Commissioners Court provided free ferriage for county citizens across the Angelina via the Morris Ferry. Traditionally, this was where the Old Beef Trail crossed the Angelina River. In 1916 the Western Naval Stores Company established a turpentine camp and distillery near the crossing. Over 100 employees tended nearly fifty boxes of raw turpentine at the site, and the population at the camp peaked at 350. The site was abandoned in 1920, however, and installations were removed. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Newton County Historical Commission, Glimpses of Newton County History (Burnet, Texas: Nortex, 1982). Robert Wooster
Mount Union	304156-N	0940120-W	Magnolia Springs
Muster Point	*see Quigley*
New Blox	305855-N	0935911-W	Jasper East
	Located in northwest Jasper County and was once another mill town. In the 1920's it had a population of over 800 but was abandoned during World War !!. New Blox, twenty miles northwest of Jasper in northwestern Jasper County, was built north of an older Jasper County settlement called Ebenezer, as an extension of a Kirby Lumber Company camp at Blox. The new camp had a commissary by 1927. As the timber at the older community was cut out, a spur line was built to New Blox, enabling the company to move its buildings to the newer logging camp. At its peak New Blox had a population of 800. Local residents got their mail from nearby Ferguson from 1928 to 1933. As loggers cut out the area's stands of virgin timber, most residents moved on. Company buildings were removed during the mid-1930s; by 1941 only twenty people remained at New Blox, and by the late 1940s population estimates were no longer available. A 1984 county highway map refers to the older Blox as New Blox, and second-growth forests have now reclaimed the original site of New Blox. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jasper County Scrapbook, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Robert Wooster
Oak Hill	304756-N	0940646-W	Beech Grove
Peachtree Peach Tree	also see Indian Creek PEACH TREE, TEXAS Peach Tree is at the junction of State Highway 63 and Farm Road 254, six miles west of Jasper and seventy-three miles north of Beaumont in northern Jasper County. Early settlers who came to the area before the Civil War named their community for the wild peach trees they found nearby. The fertile land proved attractive, and Ramsey C. Armstrong, Sr., opened a private school called the Peach Tree Academy about 1870 on a branch of Lewis Creek. At the time 100 persons lived at Peach Tree, which also had a store, a gristmill, and a post office from 1872 to 1890. A few scattered farmhouses and a church still mark the little community. BIBLIOGRAPHY: James M. McReynolds, A History of Jasper County, Texas, Prior to 1874 (M.A. thesis, Lamar State College of Technology, 1968). Robert Wooster
Pinetucky	Once large, scattered settlement on Wiess-Bluff Road. First settlers, Alexander & Sherod Wright, arrived in 1824. Magnolia Springs post office opened here in 1850. The community had a store, gristmill, sawmill, tannery and church. Texas Tram & Lumber Company opersted a logging camp in the area during the 1880's & 1890's.The population began to decline with the arrival of the railroad in Kirbyville in the mis-1890's. Post office was moved in 1905.
Proserpina	Proserpina was in west central Jasper County southwest of Jasper and Beech Grove. The Proserpina post office was established in 1903 but discontinued in 1907. The voting precinct was briefly abolished in 1921 but reestablished; in 1926 it was consolidated with that of Erin. Robert Wooster
Quigley	Logging camp established in 1905 by C. E. Slade for Miller-Link Lumber Company. Allison-Barclay Lumber Company built a sawmill here in 1924. ------------ Quigley was on the Orange and Northwestern Railway in southern Jasper County. C. E. Slade established a logging camp there shortly after reaching an agreement with the Miller-Link Company to log his land in Jasper and Newton counties in 1905. With a tram railroad easing access to the heavily wooded area, the camp shipped up to twenty-four cars of logs per day and had a population of 150. The Slade camp was abandoned in 1909, but the Allison-Barclay Lumber Company of Call built a new sawmill at Quigley in 1924. Although the mill had a daily capacity of 10,000 board feet, it was removed three years later. Quigley is no longer shown on county highway or United States Geological Survey maps. Robert Wooster
Quinn	302257-N	0940204-W	Franklin Lake
Remlig	A once active community of about 1200 persons near a sawmill built on Rock Creek by Alexander Gilmer. The place was named Remlig, which is Gilmer spelled backwards. It at one time had a swimming pool, movie theater and sawmill employees were housed in white bungaows. ----------- Remlig was northeast of Browndell and ninety miles north of Beaumont in extreme northeastern Jasper County. Alexander Gilmer,^qv who owned land in both Sabine and Jasper counties, completed the mill at Remlig in 1905. A post office was established that same year. By 1907 the Gilmer Lumber Company had established 2½ miles of tram roads in Jasper County, linking Gilmer's mill at Remlig with the logging camps in the area. With miscellaneous property totalling well over $100,000 by 1910, the Gilmer operation had become one of the largest businesses in the county. As the timber stands were cut out, however, operations slowed, and the Gilmer Lumber Company at Remlig closed in 1926. The post office discontinued service the same year, and the Remlig voting precinct was combined with that at Browndell. The old mill town does not appear on topographic or highway maps of the 1980s. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Hamilton Pratt Easton, History of the Texas Lumbering Industry (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1947). Robert Wooster
Richardson Richardson's Bluff	see Evadale
Robertson	301735-N	0935434-W	Gist
	Robertson is on State Highway 62 twenty-eight miles northeast of Beaumont in southern Jasper County. The community grew up around the Orange and Northwestern Railway, which was converted from a logging tramline to a common carrier in 1902. By 1905 Robertson was the sole stop on the road between Maurice, in Orange County, and Buna. By 1918 several other stations and flag stops had been established, thus diminishing Robertson's importance. Highway maps of the mid-1980s do not show Robertson, although the Geographical Names and Information System continues to list the little community. Robert Wooster
Roganville	304800-N	0935412-W	Roganville
	Roganville is on Farm Road 2245 sixty miles north of Beaumont in east central Jasper County. The area was in the heart of the East Texas piney woods and was opened to major lumber interests with the construction of the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railway in the late 1890s. The town was named for Judge Charles Rogan of Austin, a commissioner of the General Land Office. The Roganville Lumber Company, built by J. T. and W. T. Hooker, was established in 1899. The Hooker and Newton County tram roads connected the mill with the Sabine River. With a terminal at Roganville, the Gulf, Beaumont and Great Northern Railway, begun in 1901, eventually extended as far as Center, in Shelby County, thus tying the Jasper County mill to the rich forests to the north as well. John Henry Kirby purchased the Roganville facility as part of his enormous expansion into East Texas in 1902. The plant, known as Mill J, had a planer by 1904 and a capacity of 55,000 board feet per day. Ten years later the Roganville mill also had a bandsaw and a kiln. Roganville had a population estimated at 200 before the closing of the Kirby mill in 1930. It declined to 100 by the late 1940s and remained at that level in 1990. The local production of rail ties began again in 1963 with the opening of the Electric Timber Tie mill. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kirby Lumber Corporation Papers, Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University. Robert Wooster
Science Hall	Science Hall is at the junction of Farm Road 777 and U.S. Highway 190, seventy miles north of Beaumont in western Jasper County. The area, formerly a rural school community, was by 1986 closely identified with the Beech Grove community. At that time a small convenience store marked the crossroad site, referred to as Science Hall on county highway maps. Robert Wooster
Spring Creek	Sawmill town located on a railroad. Once had post office, general store, town hall and about 200 hundred people.
Temco	302135-N	0940400-W	Evadale
Turpentine	Established in 1907 in the northeast portion of Jasper County by the Western Naval Stores Industry as a turpentine camp & distillery. -------------- Turpentine was on the Burr's Ferry, Browndell and Chester Railroad seventy miles north Beaumont in northwestern Jasper County. The area in the heart of the dense forests of northern Jasper County was opened to major lumber interests with the construction of the railroad from Rockland, Tyler County, to Aldridge, Jasper County, in 1907. By the following year the Western Naval Stores Company had secured a "turpentine franchise and lease" south and east of Aldridge. In 1909 the railroad was extended to the company's camp, four miles east of Aldridge, named Turpentine. A post office was opened the same year to serve the men working the facility. The rail line was acquired by the Texas and New Orleans Railroad in 1915 and extended from Turpentine another nine miles east, toward the Angelina River, in 1922. However, bridging the Angelina proved too expensive, and the Turpentine-Angelina spur was abandoned within three years. With most of the local timber cut by the mid-1920s, the facilities at Turpentine became unnecessary as workers moved to other areas. The post office was discontinued in 1926, and the Rockland to Turpentine railroad followed suit the next year. The abandoned site was not named on 1984 highway or geological survey maps. BIBLIOGRAPHY: S. G. Reed, A History of the Texas Railroads (Houston: St. Clair, 1941; rpt., New York: Arno, 1981). Charles P. Zlatkovich, Texas Railroads (Austin: University of Texas Bureau of Business Research, 1981). Robert Wooster
Wenssco	Wenasco, five miles north of Jasper in northern Jasper County, was established in 1915 and derived its name from the initial letters of the Western Naval Stores Company, for which it was a turpentine camp. The camp had a distillery, three side camps that tended 100 boxes of turpentine, 300 employees, and a population of 500. In 1919 all installations were removed and the site abandoned. A post office, established in 1916, was discontinued in 1920. Diana J. Kleiner
Westwood	310507-N	0940929-W	Ebenezer
Wiess Bluff	Polish-Jewish immigrant, Simon Weiss, bought land here and founded this site in 1840. It was a riverport on the Neches River by 1842 and the site of a logging camp for Beaumont Lumber Company, which floated logs downstream to its mill. -------------- Wiess's Bluff, also known as Wiess Bluff Community, is on Farm Road 1131 fifteen miles north of Beaumont in the extreme southwestern corner of Jasper County. The site, on the east bank of the Neches River, was known as Grant's Bluff before Simon Wiess^qv opened a general store there in January 1840. Although Wiess's Bluff was a failure as a townsite, it proved a tremendous business success for the Wiess store. At the head of low-water navigation on the Neches River and at the southern terminus of the Jasper-Wiess's Bluff road, the location drew most of the Neches River valley trade during the mid-nineteenth century. Steamboats plying the Neches and farmers throughout the area used the warehouses and store built by Wiess for their imported goods and cotton exports. During the Civil War, the Confederacy made Wiess's Bluff a depot for military stores and supplies. The settlement, located near the dense pine and cypress forests of southern Jasper and Hardin counties, also became an important site for lumbering. Wiess had operated a small sawmill for years. In 1886 J. G. Smyth and Company bought the surrounding area and began to expand local logging efforts. The Beaumont Lumber Company took over two years later and by 1889 began operating a fifteen-mile tram road. Although lumbering continued until after 1900, the construction of the Sabine and East Texas Railroad in 1883 and the Gulf, Beaumont, and Kansas City Railway in the mid-1890s spelled doom for Wiess's Bluff as a riverport. The post office, opened in 1853, was discontinued in 1908. A cemetery and several old houses, however, still overlooked the Neches River at the old site in the late 1980s. BIBLIOGRAPHY: William T. Block, "From Cotton Bales to Black Gold: A History of the Wiess Families of Southeastern Texas," Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record 8 (1972). James M. McReynolds, A History of Jasper County, Texas, Prior to 1874 (M.A. thesis, Lamar State College of Technology, 1968). Robert Wooster
Zavala	Zavala, also known as Muster Point, was on an unmarked road north of State Highway 63, twelve miles northwest of Jasper and eighty-five miles north of Beaumont in northwestern Jasper County. The town was founded in 1834 and named for the empresario Lorenzo de Zavala,^qv the original grantee of the land that was to become Jasper County. The town of Zavala, situated on land owned by Thomas B. Huling, was probably laid out by George Washington Smyth,^qv a prominent Jasper County surveyor. Zavala was on the Old Beef Trail but was dependent on the Angelina River for trade. The town became a depot for surplus agricultural crops and imports. It also served as the seat of government for Bevil's Settlement and home to some thirty to forty families. Zavala was incorporated on December 24, 1838, by an act of the Republic of Texas,^qv and a courthouse was built; a post office was established as early as 1839. Although Huling was a prominent citizen of Jasper County and a successful booster and businessman, he was apparently unable to attract larger numbers of residents to Zavala. A disastrous fire swept the town during the 1840s, and the courthouse, homes, and almost all records were destroyed. Huling sold most of his interest in the town, plus almost 5,000 acres of Jasper County land, to Jerich Durkee of London, England, in 1847. In return, Huling received $1,000 in cash and 5,000 "tin boxes of Green Mountain Vegitable Ointment." The little community declined rapidly thereafter, despite agreements by Durkee to attempt to settle immigrants at the Angelina River location. The post office at Zavala was discontinued in 1856. However, the town was included in a list of Jasper County communities in 1878. A marker erected in 1936 at Hamilton's Cemetery commemorates the abandoned town. BIBLIOGRAPHY: James M. McReynolds, A History of Jasper County, Texas, Prior to 1874 (M.A. thesis, Lamar State College of Technology, 1968).
Zeireth	Zeirath was on the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railway between Jasper and Kirbyville in eastern Jasper County. A post office was briefly established at Zeirath in 1901, and by 1905 the hamlet had a railroad loading switch. Zeirath was an election precinct by 1912. L. L. Bean sold thirteen tenant houses, a store, and a variety of milling equipment located at Zeirath to J. J. and V. S. Bean in 1915. Another milling operation, probably that of the George W. Cavin Lumber Company, was present during the 1920s until local timber was cut out. A few scattered residences remained in 1986, although no community center could be identified. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Ed Ellsworth Bartholomew, 800 Texas Ghost Towns (Fort Davis, Texas: Frontier, 1971). Robert Wooster
Zion Hill	305007-N	0935817-W	Roganville
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* Some of the "place names"of the smaller or "ghost towns" were gleaned from a wonderful and colorful book: The 35 Best GHOST TOWNS In East Texas..and 220 other towns we left behind. This is one of Bob Bowman's Books about east Texas and was published in 1988 by: Best of East Texas Publishers. This book is a must have for any East or Southeast Texas researcher.

Also, some of the foregoing information was gleaned from 1001 Texas Place Names, by Fred Tarpley, printed by University of Texas Press. 1980 (ISBN 0-292-76016-7). Also, Glimpses of Newton County History, by Pauline Hines & the Newton County Historical Commission, 1982, printed by Nortex Press of Burnett, Tx.

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