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Montalba, Texas

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575: 80: 47: 302:, a community located about two or three miles north of the settlement, in 1848. P.G. Oldham was one of the first settlers in the community, in which he built a home just northwest of the settlement in 1853. A church called Beaver Valley Primitive Baptist Church was located near the community. A cemetery was established in the settlement and became known as Holly Springs. The location of Beaver Valley and Montalba on a road between 87: 54: 316:
and three churches in Montalba in 1978. It has had several populations. Its population nadir was 50 in both 1925 and 1933, and its population zenith was 300 in 1931. It reached 200 residents in 1964 and then plunged to 110 between 1974 and 1989. It had a population of 110 from that year through 2000.
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to make firearms and ammunition within the community's loose boundaries. It is mostly agrarian, and the community is both a supply point and a local market. There were two gas stations, a combined gas station and general store, a 4-H Club building, a community center, a post office, numerous homes,
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made both of those communities central gathering places for farmers in the area. Beaver Valley did this first, then Montalba. The community's early industry is unknown, but there is a foundry that was used during the
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Montalba was given this name when William J. Hamlett, Jr., applied to have a post office established in the community and for the building to be located 18 mi (29 km) east of the
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church located in the community in 1853 was also used as a school. The community's school originated when Mrs. Peter G. Adams and Mrs. B.H. Brooks worked together to join the schools in
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together since the surrounding school districts joined them as well. This district had 188 White and 183
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as early as December 1881. The nearest post office at that time was in nearby
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Montalba, Texas
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children enrolled in 1933. Today the community is served by the
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Unincorporated communities in Anderson County, Texas
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Unincorporated community
Montalba is located in Texas
Montalba is located in the United States
31°52′36″N 95°43′58″W / 31.87667°N 95.73278°W / 31.87667; -95.73278
Country
State
Texas
County
Anderson
Time zone
UTC-6
Central (CST)
DST
UTC-5
ZIP codes
Area code(s)
903, 430
GNIS
unincorporated community
Anderson County, Texas
Handbook of Texas
Palestine, Texas
Trinity River
Beaver Creek
Tennessee Colony
Beaver Valley
Palestine
Athens
Civil War
post office

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