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St,
John The Baptist Missionary Church, NW of Tunis
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, 2006 |
History
in a Pecan ShellSettlement
first began in the1820s. The town became a trading center for area plantations
in the mid-1800s. Tunis had a post office in 1878. Dog races held on Sunday gave
the community the unofficial name of “Dogtown.” During the 1890s Italian immigrants
settled in the area and by the late 1800s the town was thriving with four physicians,
a store, a blacksmith, a saloon, school, and church.
Population figures:
1904:
187
1936: 100
1941: 150
In 1945 the Tunis school merged with the
Snook ISD. The New Jerusalem Church and the Old
Bethlehem Church are still open and serving the community at the time of our visit
in 2003. |
Seeing
double
TE photos, 2003 | |
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