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The town shipped cotton to Galveston from area plantations and depended on water traffic in the 1890s. At its height, circa 1900, Amsterdam had a hotel and school. However, the Galveston hurricane of 1900 did considerable damage, and afterward the town failed to grow. State highway maps of 1936 showed only scattered dwellings at the townsite.
US 84 east (East Park Avenue) – Texas State Railroad Palestine Depot, Palestine State Park: South end of US 84 overlap: 186.1: 299.5: SH 19 north (North Church Street) North end of SH 19 overlap: 186.4: 300.0: Loop 127 east (Avenue A) / FM 322 south (South Sycamore Street) 186.9: 300.8: US 84 west (West Oak Street) – Fairfield: North end of ...
The Texas State Railroad, also referred to as the Lone Star and Eastern Railroad, is a historic 25 mi (40 km) heritage railroad between Rusk and Palestine, Texas. Built by inmates, it was founded in 1883 by the state of Texas to haul raw materials for a smelter at the prison at Rusk. Regular service on the line was ended in 1921.
Northbound Texas Route 155 between Palestine and Frankston, Texas, April 2006. SH 155 begins at US 79 / SH 19 in Palestine northeastward via Frankston to SH 64 at Tyler. Just north of Frankston, a series of three causeways, one measuring a mile in length, crosses Lake Palestine and passes through the resort towns of Coffee City and Dogwood City.
Including concurrencies with other state highways, Texas State Highway 7 (SH 7) reaches a total length of 213.910 miles (344.255 km) between Interstate 35 (I-35) and Farm to Market Road 107 (FM 107) at Bruceville-Eddy and a junction with U.S. Highway 84 (US 84) near the Louisiana state line.
The highway's southern terminus is at I-30 in Dallas near Fair Park. From there, it follows Grand Avenue along White Rock Lake and then Garland Road into Garland as it passes I-635. In Downtown Garland, Highway 78 follows the central streets of Avenues B and D before joining Lavon Drive and moving northeastward.
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The community of Hewitt was established following the donation of land by John A. Warren, the town's first businessman, in the 1880s. Warren purchased roughly 40 acres (16 ha) and the town site was named Hewitt in 1883 for George A. Hewitt, an employee of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad. [5]