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POLLOK,
TEXASAngelina
County, East Texas
Highway 7 just S of Highway 69
12 Miles NW of Lufkin
17 Miles SW of Nacogdoches
Population: 300 (2000) |
History in
a Pecan Shell
The town came into being in the
1880s when one Richard Blair built a sawmill here alongside the railroad. The
railroad stop was known as Bodan, after Frenchman Francis D. Bodan, a storekeeper
on the "old Smugglers' Road" some 20 miles W of Nacogdoches.
When the time came for a post office (1886) the name that was granted was Pollok
( no explanation) and the name was accepted by and for the town.
By the
late 1880s Pollock was doing well for a town its size. A Union Church was built
in 1899 for Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian congregations. The overworked
building also served for elections and entertainment. The Bodan Lumber Company
dominated the economy and when it burned, the town suffered accordingly. Two company
shareholders constructed a much smaller mill to finish cutting the available timber,
but that too closed.
Pollok did manage to survive and enough people remained
to keep the post office open. During the 30s the population was still 100 and
by 1964 it had increased to 350.
The TxDoT Angelina County map shows
three cemeteries near Pollock.
Pollok
Texas and a Mystery Light on the Bodan by Ken Rudine |
Pollok,
Texas ForumSubject:
Pollok TX
My mother came to Houston from Pollok. When I was a child I
went there just about every other weekend. In the deer season photo, Jack is on
the running board, Bob is on the right fender, with the rifle is Teba and then
my dad and mom on the bumper. Jack plowed, Bob hunted and Teba was my aunt Rena's
husband from Jeanerette La. The house was on a hill. In 1972 I named their road
Edwards Loop (off Hwy 69). I also named Rifle Rd. and Fenley Flat roads. I bought
the signs from Safety Lights Co in Houston and with 2 friends, we planted them
at midnight. The county later fixed bent or missing signs to perpetuate what I
started. - Ken Rudine. January 30, 2007
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