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TEAGUE, TEXAS
Freestone County,
North Central Texas
Highway 84, 179, and FMs 80 and 145
43 miles S of Corsicana
9 miles SW of Fairfield
20 miles NW of Buffalo
Population: 4,500 (2000)
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The
water tower in Teague
Photo by Ken Rudine, July, 2005 |
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History
in a Pecan Shell
First settlers moved into the area prior to the Civil War and later
a small community named Brewer sprang up. Things got going in 1906
when the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway arrived. The railroad built
a machine shop here and did repairs on their cars here. The town was
renamed after Betty Teague, a niece of railroad magnate B. F. Yoakum.
The railroad influence is still felt today with a notable presence
of BNSF and the old railroad depot museum - including the nearby Hotel
Teague - a vacant ruin with some nice brickwork. |
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The
Railroad Depot
Early 1900s photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
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| As a shipping
center for local cotton farmers, Teague prospered. By 1914 it had
population of 3,300 - which rivaled many county seats in Texas at
that time. Teague had electric lights, a waterworks, an ice factory,
three banks, two gins, a cottonseed oil mill, three newspapers -a
daily and two weeklies. Teague, like most of Texas, prospered through
the 20's - right up until the Great Depression. |
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Teague
High School
Early 1920s photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
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Cotton bottomed
out and the population melted away. From 140 businesses in 1931, there
were only 100 five years later.
With the increased mobility after WWII more people left and more businesses
went under. In 1975 the population was still a respectable 2,800.
By 1990 the population was back to 1914 figures of over 3,200 and
it has inceased further to over 4, 500. |
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City Drug
Store & Davis Building on 4th Avenue, early 1900s
Photo
courtesy texasoldphotos.com
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Teague
Texas Forum
Subject:
Jack Ellis Scott
My name is Sam Scott. My father lived in Teague and I assume went
to Teague High School. He passed away when I was 11. I never had
the opportunity to talk to my father about his childhood and growing
up in Teague. He always worked out of town and we lived in Jonesville,
Virginia. I have tried, through the school to get information about
high school annuals but because he probably attended school in the
1920s It's hard to find those years. If you have any information
about a place where I could get or look at an annual I would really
appreciate an e-mail from you. If It helps My grandfather was Samuel
J Scott, my grandmother was Mary Ethel Scott. I was told as a child
that my grandfather was the road commissioner for the county. Thanks.
Sam Scott, June 19, 2006, E-mail: ps49@verizon.net
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