WELDON HOUSTON , CO. TX. 1913 BURNED 2 OR 3 TIMES 1926 & 1928

B.E. GOODRUM GENERAL MERCHANDISE: BUSY PLACE

WELDON DEPOT

HARDWARE: DR. HENRY NELSON on left & HORACE LEGGETT on right.

WELDON IS IN HOUSTON CO. TX. NAMED FOR WELDON MORROW FOR GIVING LAND FOR TOWNSITE. 1890 POP. 128. IN 2003 IT'S NOT MUCH OF A TOWN. COTTON & PEOPLE ARE GONE.

The Handbook of Texas Online. WELDON, TEXAS,on Farm Road 230 twenty-one miles south of Crockett in southern Houston County, was settled just after the Civil War. A post office began operating in 1869, and a school opened in the late 1870s or early 1880s. In the late 1880s the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine Railway was extended to Weldon, and the town became a regional lumbering center. By 1885 Weldon had several steam saw and grist mills, a cotton gin, two general stores, a drug store, a meat market, and an estimated population of 150. The town continued to prosper during the 1910s and 1920s, and by the early 1930s it had a population of 200 and several businesses. After World War IIqv many of the residents moved away, and by 1950 the population had dwindled to eighty. In 1990 Weldon had a population of 131. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Armistead Albert Aldrich, The History of Houston County, Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1943). Houston County Historical Commission, History of Houston County, Texas, 1687-1979 (Tulsa, Oklahoma: Heritage, 1979). Houston County Cemeteries (Crockett, Texas: Houston County Historical Commission, 1977; 3d ed. 1987). Christopher Long Recommended citation: "WELDON, TX." The Handbook of Texas Online.