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John Wessels'
Store and Dance Hall, photo circa 1915
Wessels
Family Collection
Submitted by Carolyn Heinsohn, Fayette County Historical Commission
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History on
a Pinhead
Settlement in the
1840s included Robert E. B., John, and George W. Baylor. Founded alongside
the tracks of the Taylor, Bastrop and Houston Railway in 1887, the
community had the basics (store, gin, lumberyard and saloon) by the
mid 1890s.
It acquired a post office in 1900 and seemed destined for growth.
Halsted had the geographic misfortune of being between other growing
towns and close to the county seat (La
Grange). The businesses closed although the post office held on
for several decades before closing sometime in the 1930s.
The 1990 census reported nearly 46 residents in the vicinity which
declined to just 26 for 2000. |
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John Wessels'
Store, photo circa 1915
Wessels
Family Collection
Submitted by Carolyn Heinsohn, Fayette County Historical Commission
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John Wessels'
Store, photo circa 1915
Wessels
Family Collection
Submitted by Carolyn Heinsohn, Fayette County Historical Commission
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1920s Fayette
County map showing Halsted
(E of La Grange)
Courtesy Texas General Land Office |
1907 Fayette
County postal map showing Halsted
(E of La Grange)
Courtesy Texas General Land Office |
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