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FARRSVILLE,
TEXASNewton
County, East Texas
Highway 63
50 Miles N of Beaumont
18 miles N of Newton
4 miles E of the Jasper County Line
Population:
unknown
Farrsville,
Texas Area Hotes
Jasper
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History
in a Pecan Shell
The community was named after former Mississipian
and popular farmer & Methodist minister Alfred E. Farr. Settlement is said to
have started in the 1840s or early 1850s. Originally called Farr's Mill,
the town seems to have one of each - a grist mill, sawmill and water mill. For
good measure there was a cotton gin. The town was on a stageline from Beaumont
to Alexandria, Louisiana and during the Civil War the road was a Confederate military
trail.
The post office was granted in 1875 and the town had a population
estimated at 150 by 1875. When nearby Wiergate
opened their much larger sawmills in the early 20th century, the sawmill at Farrsville
was shut down (1918) followed by the gristmill during the Great Depression. Farrsville's
population hovered at 75 throughout the first six decades when, in the mid 1960s
it doubled to 150. The TxDoT map of Newton County shows three cemeteries within
two miles of Farrsville. Hines, Pleasant Hill and one with no name shown. |
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1940s
Newton County map showing Farrsville (W of Newton,
NE of Jasper)
Courtesy Texas General Land Office |
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