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History in
a Pecan Shell
The settlement is said to have been named for a petticoat lost (and
evidently found) at a local dance. The garment had been recycled
from an old coffee sack and had retained the stenciled name: Java
The area was first settled in the late 1840s and early 1850s by
settlers from Alabama and Tennessee, but as a community, Java did’t
expand until the 1890s, when prison crews from the Texas State Penitentiary
in Rusk came to mine
coal to fuel the state-owned iron furnace. A small trading post
consisting of a general store and sawmill grew up at the site, and
a post office was opened there in 1895.
In 1906, after the Texas State Railroad was constructed from Rusk
to Palestine,
the Java post office was closed. Within a short time most of the
merchants and residents had moved to the newly founded town of Maydelle,
on the railroad.
Java celebrated
it’s centennial as a ghost town in 2010.
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