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HULL, TEXAS

Liberty County, East Texas / Texas Gulf Coast

30° 8' 47" N, 94° 38' 33" W (30.146389, -94.6425)
Farm Road 834 & Farm Road 770
2 miles N of Daisetta
NE of Liberty the county seat
43 miles NW of Beaumont
Population: 669 (2010) 1,800 (2000)

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History in a Pecan shell

The name was in honor of a railroad official - W. F. Hull.

It became a station on the Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway and a post office was established in 1908. Hull was a railroad shipping point for Daisetta and in 1918 oil was discovered and the town grew predicably. The Doucette Lumber Company opened in 1919 which provided building materials for the blossoming town.

The population of Hull was estimated to between 1,000 and 1,200 from 1920 to the late 1940s.
Hull Texas old bank building
The original Hull State Bank building still standing near the railroad tracks, with the new bank building across the street. - Photo courtesy Ken Rudine, August 2007

Hull, Texas Chronicles

Outlaw was Crazy Like a Fox
The Red Fox of the Big Thicket
by Wanda Orton

"... he showed up in Hull in Liberty County, where he and a man named Francis Smith robbed the Hull State Bank. The masked robbers locked two terrified employees in the vault, fled with $12,000 and then parted company." more
Hull Texas masonic lodge
Hull Masonic Lodge
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Photo courtesy Ken Rudine, August 2007
Hull Texas watertower
Hull water tower
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Photo courtesy Ken Rudine, August 2007
TX   Liberty County 1940s Map
1920s Liberty County map showing Hull
near Hardin County line
From Texas state map #10749
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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Hull, Texas Nearby Towns:
Liberty the county seat
Daisetta
Beaumont
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East Texas / Texas Gulf Coast

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