The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The site of present-day Appleby was originally a Caddo village, and white settlers began arriving in the surrounding area in the 1820s. The community developed in the early 1880s after the Houston, East and West Texas Railway was built through the area and platted a town named for James Appleby, a former railway auditor. By 1885, Appleby had a reported population of 100, a general store, and two cotton gins. A post office opened in 1889, and by World War I, Appleby had grown to nearly 1,000 residents. At its peak, the town boasted four churches, two gins, four sawmills, two hotels, and several drugstores. The Appleby school, founded before 1900, became the first independent school district in Nacogdoches County. By the mid-1920s, the population had fallen to 500, and by the early 1950s, it had declined to 250. The post office was discontinued in 1958, and the last store closed by 1964.
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1 historic place in Appleby
1 place in Appleby is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
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Stories next door
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