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JAMESTOWN,
TEXASSmith County,
East Texas
FM 1253 and FM 1805
2 Miles E of the Van Zandt County Line
4 Miles N of
Garden Valley
About 26 Miles NW of Tyler
Population:
0070 (2000) Jamestown,
Texas Area Hotels:
Tyler
Hotels |
History in
a Pecan Shell
Very
little is recorded of Jamestown’s early years. The Handbook of Texas has
described it in 1936 as being “a factory, two other businesses, a church, a cemetery,
and around thirty dwellings.” The 1948 population was 75 and the local school
merged with the Van ISD in the early 1950s. Fifteen homes, a cemetery and clay
pit were shown on 1950s maps – and in the 1970s the same number of dwellings were
reported. The 1990 population of seventy-five has declined to the current 70 (2000).
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