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TEASELVILLE,
TEXAS
AKA Loftin, Texas
Smith County, East
Texas
FM 344 and FM 346
4 Miles W of Bullard
S of Tyler
Population:
150 (2000)
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Colonel John Dewberry opened his plantation home to voters in 1846
and six years later the town was founded. In 1854 Dewberry built a
larger estate on a state land grant. The fledgling community that
formed had the benefit of being on the Tyler-Palestine
Road.
Teaselville was bypassed by the railroad
in the 1870s. Another prominant family gave the town it's second name
of Loftin when a post office opened in 1900 although it closed in
the early 1930s. The community had two churches and a factory of some
sort in the 1930s, but the school merged with Bullard
in the late 1940s and the local Baptist Church started using the vacant
school. The name of Teaselville came back into usage for the few remaining
citizens which numbered 150 for the 2000 census. |
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