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History in
a Pinecone
Settled
around the time of the Civil War, the town had a school sometime around
1887, and a post office around 1900 which closed in 1912.
The Diboll Lumber Company operated two lumber camps nearby. The town
suffered the fate of many logging
communities in East Texas. |
1907 postal map
showing Iris in NE Trinity
County
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy Texas General Land Office |
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