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Palestine: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark; currently the Museum for East Texas Culture: 20: ... Post Office-Palestine. June 11, 1998 : 101 E. Oak St. Palestine ...
A post office was established at Bradford in 1882 and remained in operation until 1907. It is thought to be named for B.L. Bradford, the community's first postmaster. A Presbyterian church, a general store, and steam-powered cotton gins and gristmills were in the settlement in 1884 and had a population of 150 inhabitants.
It is a part of the Palestine, Texas micropolitan area. ... The community had a post office from 1893 to 1918. It has a population of 100 in 2000. [1] Geography
A trading post was established by Anglo-Americans circa 1843, and some settlers gathered around it. [8] In 1846, the Texas Legislature incorporated Palestine to serve as a seat for the newly established Anderson County.
A post office was established at Elmtown in 1901 and remained in operation until 1906. It had only two businesses and ten settlers in 1933 and not long after, its population was estimated as 50 in the late 1930s. A factory was in operation in the 1940s and all that remained in the 1980s was a cemetery located at the crossroads.
Neches' first post office, which opened the same year as the town, was called Nechesville. A Masonic lodge, two steam-powered sawmills, a gristmill, two churches, two general stores, and two saloons were in operation in the community by 1884 and the community had 100 inhabitants living in it. The community shipped lumber.
The List of post offices in the British Mandate of Palestine refers to post offices operated in Palestine under allied British military control of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration and, after 1920, the civil administration of the British Mandate of Palestine. During the Mandate, postal services were provided by British authorities.
A post office was established at Tennessee Colony in 1852. Before the Civil War , as well as after, the community fell victim to racial tensions. Two white men from Mississippi named Cable and Wyrick were accused of plotting a slave uprising in 1860, in which they encouraged slaves to kill most of the community's white residents by poisoning ...