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History in a Pecan
Shell
The town was founded by James Stanley, a blacksmith and Mexican
War veteran who settled here before the Civil War. Standley, who was also a woodworker
oversaw production of wagons and cassions for the Confederate Army. The Trinity
and Sabine Railroad arrived in the mid 1880s and a sawmill was built to cut railroad
ties. The decline of the lumber industry in East
Texas affected Asia's economy and the community became just another of the
hundreds of lumber towns that disappeared as the region’s pine forests were reduced
to stumps. | |
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