History
in a Pecan Shell
The town was founded by James Stanley, a blacksmith
and Mexican War veteran who settled here before the Civil War. Standley, who was
also a woodworker oversaw production of wagons and cassions for the Confederate
Army. The Trinity and Sabine Railroad arrived in the mid 1880s and a sawmill was
built to cut railroad ties. The decline of the lumber industry in East
Texas affected Asia's economy and the community became just another of the
hundreds of lumber towns that disappeared as the region’s pine forests were reduced
to stumps.
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