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History
in a Pecan Shell
The community was settled before the Civil War, but it didn’t take off until
the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway arrived in 1895. When the post office was
granted (1896) the town was named for a railroad official.
Being the
last rail stop before the railroad left the state, it became an important shipping
point.
From 1898 until 1920, the Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana Railway
connected Bloomburg residents to the Texas and Pacific Railway.
By 1900
the town had 198 people, by 1911 it was incorporated and by 1914 there were about
600 residents. Between 1914 and the 1960s the population fluctuated between a
high of 600 and a low of 433. In the 1960s it fell from 500 to 231. |
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