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JOAQUIN,
TEXASShelby
County, East Texas
Highway 84
14 miles NE of Center
12 miles E of Teneha
2 miles W of the Louisiana
State Line
Population: 925 Book
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History in a Pecan
Shell
Joaquin was founded by Benjamin Franklin Morris in 1885. Morris
donated the land to the Houston, East and West Texas Railway, provided the railroad
would build a depot. The community (and depot) were named after Morris' grandson
Joaquin Morris.
A post office was granted in 1886 and four years later
there were 100 people living there. The 1914 population had swelled to 350 and
the town had a newspaper, sawmill, bank and cotton gin. In 1940 as the population
was nearing 500 and Joaquin incorporated. The population reached 584 by the early
1950s. It dipped below 500 in the late 1960s but with the construction of Toledo
Bend Reservoir, Joaquin received a reprieve. In the late 1980s Joaquin's population
reached 969, but it has since declined to the present 925. |
| | First
Methodist Church in Joaquin
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, April 2006 | |
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