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IRIS, TEXAS

Trinity County, East Texas
16 miles NE of Trinity
37 miles NE of Huntsville

Population Very Dispersed

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History in a Pinecone

Settled around the time of the Civil War, the town had a school sometime around 1887, and a post office around 1900 which closed in 1912. The Diboll Lumber Company operated two lumber camps nearby. The town suffered the fate of many logging communities in East Texas.

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