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History
in a Pecan Shell
Founded as a shipping point on the Houston, East and West Texas Railway
in 1885, the community was named for Tenehaw Municipality, the original
name of Shelby County.
A post office was granted in 1886 and by 1890 the population was 200.
By 1896 it was publishing it's own weekly newspaper and had become
a major shipping center for lumber and produce. The population had
increased to 680.
Lumber-manufacturing and a large canning operation bolstered the local
economy through the 40s and 50s. Toledo
Bend Reservoir and the fishermen that it attracts are now a permanent
economic mainstay. |
A ghost staircase
TE Photo, July 2001 |
Marker for Loop
168,
the shortest highway in Texas
(395 feet long)
TE Photo,
July 2001
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Tenaha Welcome
Sign
TE Photo, July 2001 |
Tenaha,
Timpson, Bobo, and Blair ›
by Archie P. McDonald, PhD
Tenaha, Timpson, Bobo,
and Blair are communities in Shelby
County whose names were appropriated for a plea by crapshooters
for good luck when seeking to roll double fives. Similarly, dice throwers
hoping for an "eight" would sing out, "Eighter from Decatur, the County
Seat of Wise." Later the alliteration in the sing-song phrase "Tenaha,
Timpson, Bobo, and Blair" helped a folk song recorded by Tex Ritter
popular.
How did the communities become involved with dice and popular music?
... more
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Tenaha Time Capsule
TE Photo, July 2001 |
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