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SABINE,
TEXAS An East Texas
Gulf Coast Ghost Town
Jefferson County
32 miles S of Beaumont
Just Off FM 3322
Approx. .7 Mile South of Sabine Pass Battleground State Park
Across from the1856 Sabine Pass Lighthouse
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Vintage
area map showing railroad terminus at Sabine "City"
Courtesy of Museum of Gulf Coast |
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History in
a Pecan Shell
The town of Sabine
Pass was well-established by 1878. Investors from New York decided
to start a new town and dug a six foot channel to connect their
new town to the Gulf. A resort hotel opened and the town was the
terminus for the Sabine and East Texas railroad. Storms were taken
in stride, but particularly destructive ones in 1886 and 1900 hit
the area hard and discouraged investment.
Beaumont
and Port
Arthur offered better docking and maritime amenities, to say
nothing of the entertainment options, so arriving ships sailed right
past Sabine to the brighter lights.
A post office
opened in 1899. The Texas and New Orleans Railroad came in to use
the existing rails and there were 300 people who mostly made a living
fishing, mining sulphur, or engaging in what limited commerce was
there. By 1925 the population had increased to 400.
In 1933 the railroad was dismantled.and by the late 40s the population
had declined to 250. By 1960 it had declined to only 100 with one
business reported.
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Residents
of Sabine
Photo by John Troesser, 5-03 |
Sabine
is listed in T. Lindsay Baker’s More Ghost Towns of Texas, University
of Oklahoma Press, 2003
Sabine,
Texas Forum
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