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TEASELVILLE,
TEXAS
AKA Loftin,
TexasSmith County,
East Texas
FM 344 and FM 346
4 Miles W of Bullard
S of Tyler
Population: 150 (2000)
Teaselville,
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A
drive thru coffee house on the 4-way intersection
2009 Photo courtesy Maryon
Wright |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Colonel John Dewberry opened his plantation
home to voters in 1846 and six years later the town was founded. In 1854 Dewberry
built a larger estate on a state land grant. The fledgling community that formed
had the benefit of being on the Tyler-Palestine
Road.
Teaselville was bypassed by the railroad
in the 1870s. Another prominant family gave the town it's second name of Loftin
when a post office opened in 1900 although it closed in the early 1930s. The community
had two churches and a factory of some sort in the 1930s, but the school merged
with Bullard in the late 1940s and the local Baptist
Church started using the vacant school. The name of Teaselville came back into
usage for the few remaining citizens which numbered 150 for the 2000 census. |
A
barn in Teaselville
Photo courtesy Lori
Martin, May 2011 |
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