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WELDON, TEXAS

East Texas Ghost Town
Houston County, East Texas
FM 230
21 miles S of Crockett
Not shown on State Map
Population 131 (1990)

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Methodist Church in Weldon Texas
The old Methodist Church in Weldon

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History in a Pecan Shell

Although the source of the town's name has been forgotten, Weldon appeared sometime just after the Civil War. By 1869 a post office had been granted and the town went about establishing a school, churches and businesses.
Weldon School, Texas old photo
Weldon School, burned down in the fall of 1928 or 1929

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Weldon received a shot in the arm with the arrival of the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine Railroad in the late 1880s and soon became a lumber shipping center. By the mid 1880s Weldon had most essential businesses to serve its 159 citizens.
Weldon Texas Baseball Team
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The Progressive Era was kind to Weldon and from the1910s to the 1920s the town prospered. It entered the Great Depression with a population estimated at 200 although no figures are available until 1950 when the population was a mere 80.

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