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DENSON SPRINGS,
TEXAS
Anderson County,
East Texas
31° 37' 45.2" N, 95° 22' 26.8" W (31.629222, -95.374111)
Hwy 294
18 Miles SE of Palestine
the county seat
Next to Dream Lake
ZIP code 75844
Area code 903 & 430
Population: 100 (2000)
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History in
a Pecan Shell
From
Country Stores by Bob
Bowman:
"A friend who lives near Trawick
was bemoaning the loss of country stores a few days ago.
"When I was a kid, you could drive all over East
Texas, and every little town had one or two stores and did a good
business because the hometown folks always traded with them," he said.
My best memory of such a store was at Denson Springs on Highway
294 in Anderson County.
Every time we went to see my maternal grandparents at Slocum,
my father always stopped at the store and bought a round of orange
"soda waters" for his four kids. He also knew the storekeeper, a large,
laughing man who sometimes gave us free candy bars.
By 1914 Denson Springs had 100 residents, two general stores and a
cotton gin. The local school was consolidated with the Slocum
schools by 1955, and by 1982 Denson Springs consisted only of a cemetery,
several scattered dwellings, and one store..." more
Bob Bowman's East
Texas May
31, 2009 Column |
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