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History in
a Pecan Shell
The
community was built around the residence of C.C. Edinburgh in the
mid 1820s. Edinburgh, a San
Jacinto veteran is credited with being Walker
County’s first resident – before there was a Walker
County.
Falba once had a school and church and in 1901 it was granted a post
office. The town also had a store and two physicians but being in
a remote corner of the county, growth was unlikely. In the mid 1930s,
the community had two (segregated) schools, a church and a cemetery.
No population figures are available and by 1990 only the Falba cemetery
remained. |
Walker
County 1907 Postal Map showing Falba
(W of ghost town Dido, N of Huntsville)
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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