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History in
a Pecan shell
The name was in honor of a railroad official - W. F. Hull.
It became a station on the Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway
and a post office was established in 1908. Hull was a railroad shipping
point for Daisetta
and in 1918 oil was discovered and the town grew predicably. The Doucette
Lumber Company opened in 1919 which provided building materials
for the blossoming town.
The population of Hull was estimated to between 1,000 and 1,200 from
1920 to the late 1940s. |
| The original
Hull State Bank building still standing near the railroad tracks,
with the new bank building across the street. -
Photo courtesy Ken
Rudine, August 2007 |
Hull, Texas
Chronicles
Outlaw
was Crazy Like a Fox
The Red Fox of the Big Thicket by Wanda Orton
"... he showed up in Hull in Liberty County, where he and a man
named Francis Smith robbed the Hull State Bank. The masked robbers
locked two terrified employees in the vault, fled with $12,000 and
then parted company." more |
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