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LONG BRANCH,
TEXAS
Panola
County, East Texas
32°04'23"N 94°34'05"W (32.072942, -94.567984)
FM 348
14 Miles SW of Carthage
ZIP code 75669
Area code 903
Population: 167 Est. (2010) 181 (2000, 1990)
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Named after
an alluvial arm of Murvaul Bayou, the community was settled prior
to the Civil War. A post office was granted in 1858.
The community had an operating grist mill prior to 1880 and by the
middle of that decade, the town had a store, school and church as
well as five (!) cotton gins and two sawmills. The population at
that time was around 100.
Around 1900 a narrow-gauge logging railroad was constructed between
Timpson and Henderson,
ruinning through the town of Long Branch. By 1914 the population
had increased to 400.
In the 1920s
as the timber reserves diminished, the community entered a decline.
The narrow-gauge railroad was abandoned in 1923 and by 1925 the
population was down to 175. It remained the same in the mid 1930s.
After WWII
the commercial district closed one by one. The Long Branch school
merged with Carthage, and the population
has remained just under 200 for the 1990 and 2000 census.
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