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MIXON, TEXASTexas Ghost
Town
Cherokee County, East Texas
Highway 135 and FMs 2493 & 3052
11 miles NW of Jacksonville
20 miles N of Rusk
29 miles S of Tyler
5 miles E of Selman
Population:
50 (1990)
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Originally known as Pine Springs, the origin of the name remains something
of a mystery. The town established a church, school, and cemetery
in the mid 1850s but until a post office opened in 1889, things were
pretty quiet. The name Pine Springs had been taken by another town
so the post office was granted under the name Mixon. In 1907 the Mixon
post office closed.
The town's high-water mark occured in the 1890s when the town reported
seventy-five Mixonites. Mixon still had 70 people living there in
the 1940s, with two businesses in operation but due to the increased
mobility after WWII, Mixon had negative growth.
Today Mixon is comprised of two Baptist churches, a cemetery and a
population estimated as below 50.
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