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SEBASTOPOL,
TEXAS
AKA Bartholomew, TexasTrinity
County, East Texas
FM 355 and FM 356
14 Miles SW of Groveton
49
Miles SW of Lufkin
30 Miles
NE of Huntsville
Population: 00120 (2000) |
Sebastopol
Centennial Marker
Photo Courtesy
Barclay Gibson, December 2010 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Prior
to the Civil War, Bartholomew (the original name) was a river port. Russian
immigrants settled here in the 1850s, naming it after a town in the Crimea – a
port on the Black Sea. The population was said to have reached 500 residents prior
to the war but was reduced by an outbreak of Yellow Fever.
The Russians
shipped local cotton back to Russia via coastal
ports. He community was granted a post office in 1860 which continued through
the Civil War and was closed around 1872. As railroads took business away from
the river traffic, Sebastopol declined dramatically. At one point only a store
and a few diehard residents remained.
When the Centennial marker was placed
here in 1836, there was virtually nothing left of the town. The 1990 population
was estimated to be 31 – which increased to 120 for the 2000 census. |
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