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DOUGLAS,
TEXASSmith
County, East Texas
1 Mile S of State Highway 31 on a county road
11 Miles E of Tyler
Population: Unknown
Douglas,
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History
in a Pecan Shell
The Old Mound Indian Trail, also known as
the Jamestown-Tyler road, ran through (nearby) Douglas. The town never seems to
have developed a distinct center. Most of Douglas’ existing history concerns it’s
schools – of which there were four in the 1930s. Douglas did have a cemetery but
there are two shown on the detailed county map – one beside the other – about
a mile from where Douglas once was. One cemetery is unnamed while the other is
named Prospect.
Douglas’ entry in the Handbook of Texas states that in
the mid 1960s, only an “abandoned business, a church, and a number of dwellings
[were] scattered along dirt roads south of State Highway 31.”
Photographer's
Note:
Douglas is, was, midway between Tyler
and Kilgore on CR 26, below Highway 31. This sign
is the only sign of Douglas that I could find. - Barclay
Gibson, August
14, 2007
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