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GRESHAM,
TEXAS Smith County,
East Texas
FM 2493 and FM 2813
9 1/2 Miles S of Tyler
Just
N of Flint
Population:
100 (2000)
Gresham,
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History in
a Pecan Shell
The community began in 1877 alongside the tracks of the St. Louis Southwestern
Railroad. The town reported a cotton gin in operation after 1900, although the
population had only reached 20 by 1910.
The Gresham Baptist Church was
organized in the Fall of 1912. It hasn’t been recorded how hard Gresham was hit
by the Great Depression, but six or seven businesses survived.
The postwar
population was reportedly 100 – the same number given for the 2000 census, although
the number of businesses was reduced to only four.
Gresham’s children
attended classes in nearby Flint in the 1950s although
in the late 1960s the schools were merged with the Bullard
ISD. |
1920s
Smith County Map showing Gresham
(Under
"S" in "SMITH")
Courtesy Texas General Land Office |
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