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JOAQUIN,
TEXAS
Shelby County,
East Texas
Highway 84
14 miles NE of Center
12 miles E of Teneha
2 miles W of the Louisiana State Line
Population: 925
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Downtown
Joaquin.
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2006 |
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Joaquin was founded by Benjamin Franklin Morris in 1885. Morris donated
the land to the Houston, East and West Texas Railway, provided the
railroad would build a depot. The community (and depot) were named
after Morris' grandson Joaquin Morris.
A post office was granted in 1886 and four years later there were
100 people living there. The 1914 population had swelled to 350 and
the town had a newspaper, sawmill, bank and cotton gin. In 1940 as
the population was nearing 500 and Joaquin incorporated. The population
reached 584 by the early 1950s. It dipped below 500 in the late 1960s
but with the construction of Toledo
Bend Reservoir, Joaquin received a reprieve. In the late 1980s
Joaquin's population reached 969, but it has since declined to the
present 925. |
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VFD
and Sheriffs' Office
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First
Baptist Church
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First
Methodist Church in Joaquin
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