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LODI, TEXAS
Marion County,
East
Texas
FM 2683 and FM 248
9 Miles NE of Jefferson
Population: 164 (2000)
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Facts on the founding are scarce but it seems to have developed around
a station of the Texas and Pacific Railroad when it headed
west in the 1870s. At the time of its opening in 1876, the postmaster
named the new office after his birthplace in Italy. Lodi's population
was 75 in the mid 1880s when there were no fewer than two steam sawmills
and three general stores. In 1904 the population was 133, swelling
to a high of 175 by the mid 20s. It declined to 150 during the Great
Depression and remained at that number through the 50s when the school
consolidated with the Jefferson
ISD. Lodi had an estimated population of 100 in the 60s and by the
end of that decade it increased to 164 - the figure that has been
used ever since. |
Former
Post Office in Lodi
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2006 |
| Photo
courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2006 |
Post
Office in Lodi
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2006 |
The
burned Mt. Moriah Church (?) East of Lodi
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2006 |
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