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HUFFINES,
TEXASCass County,
East Texas
FM 251
8 miles SE of Atlanta
Population: 90 (estimate) |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Originally named Huffins for surveyor named R. M.
Huffines who had settled there, the town is believed to have started in the 1870s.
When a post office was granted in 1881 the name submitted and accepted was
Huffins. Three years later the town had a population of 50 with a school,
gristmill, saw mill and two cotton gins. It had declined to 35 by 1890 and the
post office closed in 1905. Mail was sent through Viola.
Population seems
to have reached its zenith in 1985.
In 1983 Huffines had a church, a
cemetery, a town hall, and a population reported at ninety.
Both the
name of the town and the family for which the town was named were referred to
in local newspapers alternately as Huffins or Huffines until well into the twentieth
century.
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