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CHESTER,
TEXAS Tyler
County, East Texas
Highway 287 and FM 1745
15 miles NW of Woodville
16
miles SE of Corrigan
42 Miles SE of Lufkin
Population:
265 (2000)
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Pine
Grove Church Of Christ east of Chester
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, September
2004 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
In 1883 when the Trinity and Sabine Railway bypassed
the community of Peach Tree Village, it accomplished two things. It created Chester
and it made Peach Tree Village a ghost town.
Both the post office and
Masonic lodge moved to the new town that was named after future President Chester
A. Arthur (who was then a senator from New York). By 1890 Chester had all the
essential business for success plus two gins, two churches and a school. |
Mt.
Hope United Methodist Church northeast of Chester
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson,
April 2005 |
| In 1904 there were
176 people calling Chester home which increased to 300 by 1914. It reached 350
in the early1960s and then dropped to a low of 260 by the end of that decade.
The peak population was reached in 1988 when just over 400 people lived in and
around Chester. | |
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