Texla, Texas
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Texla is a ghost town in southeast Texas, United States. It is located northwest of Orange in the northern part of Orange County, just west of Mauriceville. This site was originally called Bruce, named after the postmaster Charles G. Bruce when the office opened in 1905. The first sawmill to operate there was known as the Harrell-Votaw Lumber Company with a close proximity to the Orange and Northwestern Railway. The following year, the R. W. Wier Lumber Company out of Houston took over operations there. The site and post office was renamed Texla, due to its proximity to Louisiana.[1] The owner Wier sold out to the Miller-Link Lumber Company in 1917. The peak population of this town would reach an estimated 600 residents. In 1918 the mill was destroyed by fire, but would be rebuilt in 1919 with a double-circular mill of the same size.[2] Within a year, the Peavy-Moore Lumber Company of Deweyville would take ownership, and would operate the site until the nearby timber would become exhausted. In 1929, the mill was dismantled and the site was abandoned.[3]
From 1945 until 1977, a sawmill would operate under the name Texla Lumber Company in nearby Mauriceville according to the Texas Forestry Museum.[4]
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- USGS Entry for Texla, Texas
- Texas Transportation Archive, 1926 USGS Map of Texla
