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History in
a Pecan Shell
The town was founded by James Stanley, a blacksmith and Mexican War
veteran who settled here before the Civil War. Stanley, who was also
a woodworker oversaw production of wagons and cassions for the Confederate
Army. The Trinity and Sabine Railroad arrived in the mid 1880s and
a sawmill was built to cut railroad ties.
The decline of the lumber industry in East
Texas affected Asia's economy and the community became just another
of the hundreds of lumber towns that disappeared as the region’s pine
forests were reduced to stumps. |
Polk
County 1907 postal map showing Corrigan
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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