When the first logging railroad was built in Jasper County in the 1870s; the virgin East Texas forest spread across a vast area the size of Indiana. That first eight-mile logging line heralded a boom era of lumbering and railroading that would last well into the 20th century. Before the era was over; thousands of miles of logging railroads would be built; and hundreds of communities would spring up along their routes. As times changed; the mills closed and nearly all of the early rail lines were abandoned; but most of the communities they helped establish survived those changes and thrive into the present day.
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