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IRON BRIDGE,
TEXASEast Texas
Ghost Town
Gregg County, East Texas
6 miles S of Longview
On the Sabine River
Population:
0
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History
in a Pecan Shell
First known as Cotton Plant, Texas, the town had a post office
under that name in operation from 1850 through the end of the Civil
War. A new post office opened in 1876 under the name Iron Bridge.
The population in the mid-1880s was 150. The post office closed in
1891. In 1905 Iron Bridge reported two schools with a total enrollment
of 129. Iron Bridge melted away into oblivion - it was dropped from
maps as early as the 1930s. |
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