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GRIFFIN, TEXAS
Cherokee County,
East
Texas
Highway 110
17 Miles NE of Rusk
Population: 21
(1990)
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History in
a Pecan Shell
The town began in 1853 on the Old Tyler-Rusk Road. Isaac Kendrick
is credited as the town founder. A post office was opened in the early
1850s under the name Troutman, but in 1855 it was named as a remembrance
to Kendrick's former hometown in Georgia. The town reached it's economic
peak in the 19th Century but held on to a population of 50 during
the Great Depression. The availability of cars after WWII
allowed residents to seek work elsewhere and Griffinites left. By
1990 the population was a mere 21 people and no figures are available
for the 2000 census. |
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