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Timpson was founded in 1885 upon the arrival of the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. It reached its maximum population in 1925 when it was important in the shipping of lignite . The town became well known in the 1930s and 1940s via the popularity of the Tex Ritter song 'Tenaha, Timpson, Bobo, and Blair', which refers to the string of towns ...
State Highway 87 (SH 87) runs for 249.4 miles (401.4 km) between Galveston, Texas (at a terminus shared with Interstate 45 and Spur 342) to U.S. Highway 59 and U.S. Highway 84 in Timpson, Texas. Highway 87 has a notable stretch between Sea Rim State Park and High Island, Texas that has been washed out repeatedly over the decades and has been ...
U.S. Highway 59 (US 59) in the U.S. state of Texas is named the Lloyd Bentsen Highway, after Lloyd Bentsen, former U.S. senator from Texas. In northern Houston , US 59, co-signed with Interstate 69 (I-69), is the Eastex Freeway (from Downtown Houston to the Liberty – Montgomery county line).
US 84 runs through several smaller communities in East Texas before meeting US 59 (future I-69) in Timpson and follows that highway to Tenaha. It continues due east and crosses over the Toledo Bend Reservoir/Sabine River, into Louisiana, at Logansport, in the area where that river starts to form the Texas/Louisiana state border.
In Texas, U.S. Route 59 is known as the Lloyd Bentsen Highway for the U.S. senator (1971-1993) and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee (1988). From the southwestern suburbs of Houston to Downtown Houston, US 59 is commonly referred to as the "Southwest Freeway", sometimes derisively as the "Southwest's Best Freeway."
The 2024 UIL Texas high school football playoffs are here, and plenty of Central Texas schools will be vying for a state title. ... vs Timpson (5-4), 7 p.m. Friday at Palestine’s Wildcat Stadium ...
The route turns right and becomes concurrent with TX 114, proceeding south. The two routes merge with the northbound TX 121, and all three continue to the east until TX 26 departs onto a frontage road and meets Texan Trail. This intersection forms the southern terminus of the former Loop 382, still signed as a business route of TX 114. TX 26 ...
Operator for the Texas state-owned South Orient Rail Line [1] Texas Rock Crusher Railway (TXR) ... Marshall, Timpson and Sabine Pass Railway: ATSF: 1896 1904