Pinehurst, Texas

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Interstate 45 8 songs Brazos River 42 songs Interstate 10 36 songs US Route 90 9 songs U.S. Route 59 9 songs

History of Pinehurst

The Kingdom Next Door RoadyGoat

As you drive around Magnolia, you might not realize you're on the doorstep of a kingdom. Every October and November, this area transforms. Just down the road in Todd Mission lies the Texas Renaissance Festival, the largest event of its kind in the nation. Since 1974, this sprawling, 55-acre fantasy village has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. And Magnolia is its gateway town. The impact is enormous. Local roads, especially FM 1774, become packed with traffic. Hotels, restaurants, and gas stations for miles around are flooded with festival-goers and costumed performers. For two months, Magnolia's economy gets a massive boost from people buying turkey legs, mead, and souvenirs. It’s a unique part of the town's modern identity—a quiet Texas suburb that, for a few weeks every year, becomes the capital of a magical, medieval world.

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The Little Depot That Wouldn't Die RoadyGoat

If you see a classic old train depot in the heart of town, you're looking at the building that literally created Magnolia. Built in 1902 as a station on the International and Great Northern Railroad, it was the town's original heart. Everything revolved around it. Farmers brought cotton and sweet potatoes, lumber companies shipped their pine, mail arrived, and people came and went. For sixty years it was the center of commerce and social life. But by the 1960s, with passenger service gone and freight declining, the railroad was finished with it. The depot was closed and auctioned off in 1963, hauled off the property, and spent the next three decades serving as somebody's storage barn. Then in 1993 the community went and got it back. The newly formed Magnolia Historical Society recovered the building, brought it home, and restored it within yards of where it had originally stood. In 1999 the Texas Historical Commission awarded it an Official Historical Medallion. Today it anchors the Magnolia Depot Museum complex — a powerful symbol of a town that refused to let its founding story be torn down.

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Engineering a Path Through the Pines RoadyGoat

The railroad tracks you see cutting through Magnolia are more than just a historical feature; they are a monument to early 20th-century engineering. When the International-Great Northern Railroad decided to build a line from Navasota to Houston around 1900, its surveyors faced the challenge of the East Texas Piney Woods. This wasn't flat, open prairie. It was a rolling landscape of dense forest, thick underbrush, and swampy creek bottoms. Using little more than transits, levels, and sheer manpower, engineering crews had to plot a route that was as straight and level as possible. This meant building up low areas, cutting through small hills, and constructing dozens of wooden trestles over creeks and gullies. Gangs of laborers, using mules and manual tools, cleared the timber, graded the earth, and laid every single crosstie and steel rail by hand. The precise location of Magnolia was determined by this engineering project—a calculated decision on the best place for a depot and water stop along this newly conquered path.

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Trooper Mark Phebus Memorial Highway

1990

Honors TX DPS Trooper Mark Jeffrey Phebus, killed 1990 while responding to a domestic disturbance on FM-1774 near Magnolia.

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Magnolia Depot

1902

Built in 1902 by the International and Great Northern Railroad, this depot served as a major shipping point for cotton, sweet potatoes and other produce, cattle and lumber from area farms and sawmills. The depot closed in 1963 and was auctioned off. Used as a barn for many years, it was recovered in 1993 and moved back to Magnolia, where it was restored within yards of its original site. It remains an excellent example of an early 20th century train depot. Notable features include elements of folk Victorian architecture such as pedimented doors and windows, roof brackets and clipped gable ends. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1999

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Magnolia, TX (Anderson County)

1840

Magnolia was on the Trinity River near the intersection of Farm Road 1990 and State Highway 294, ten miles southwest of Palestine in southwestern Anderson County. It was established in the early 1840s as a Trinity River cotton port and was named for a large magnolia tree in the center of the townsite. Magnolia had a post office from 1851 to 1871. William A. Haygood was one of the principal property owners in the community and operated cotton gins, a hotel, a livery stable, a general store, a blacksmith shop, and a local ferry. Among other businesses in the community were a drugstore and John McClannahan and son's warehouse. Magnolia was reported to have a population of 800 at its peak around 1863, when the town had thirty-three blocks of residences and businesses. Most shipments from the port went to Galveston, but on May 5, 1868, a steamboat traveled up the Trinity to Dallas. After it was bypassed by the International and Great Northern Railroad in the 1870s, Magnolia declined rapidly. By the 1930s it was no longer shown on the county highway map, though its name was preserved in that of the two schools that stood on the site of the former town. In 1932 the Magnolia school for Whites had an enrollment of forty-three and the Magnolia school for Blacks, thirty-four. A 1982 map showed only the Magnolia Cemetery at the townsite.

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Magnolia, TX (Montgomery County)

1840

Magnolia is on the Missouri Pacific line at the junction of Farm roads 1774 and 1488, twenty miles southwest of Conroe in southwestern Montgomery County. It was first settled in the late 1840s and named Mink's Prairie for one of the early settlers; its name had been shortened to Mink by 1850. On September 3, 1885, a post office was established at Mink with John F. Dobbs as postmaster. The community's population was twenty-five by 1900. In 1902, when the International-Great Northern Railroad built a line through the area, the town moved to its present location. The railroad named it Melton, in honor of Jim Melton, a large landowner in the county, but the United States Post Office confused it with Milton. Consequently it was renamed Magnolia for the magnolia trees in the bottoms of adjacent Mill Creek and granted a post office in 1903. By 1915 Magnolia had a population of 150 and telephone service, a sawmill, Baptist and Methodist churches, two general stores, a physician, a railroad and express agent, a hotel, a livery and real estate office, a cattle dealer, a druggist, a confectionery, a cotton gin, and a blacksmith. By the 1940s the Magnolia oilfield had been established a mile east of town, and the community's population had increased to 400. At this time Magnolia had a station on the International-Great Northern Railroad, a post office, a cemetery, two churches, two schools, ten businesses, and forty-five dwellings. The Grogan-Cochran lumber camp was located two miles southeast of town. By 1962 the Missouri Pacific had taken over the railroad line, and Magnolia had two high schools, a church, a landing field, and a small collection of dwellings within several miles of the town center. Magnolia was incorporated on September 28, 1968. Its population grew in the 1960s and early 1970s, reaching 1,150 by 1971. By 1980 its population had declined to 867, but by 1989 it had grown to 1,132, and the town had 124 businesses. By 1990 the population of Magnolia had declined again to 940. The population grew to 1,111 by 2000 with 640 businesses.

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Mink, TX

1845

Mink, on the banks of Mink Creek twenty-five miles southwest of Conroe in southwestern Montgomery County, was one of the earliest towns in the county. Settlement began about 1845 when a man named Mink took up farming in the area; soon a gristmill was constructed near his homestead. At first the community was known as Mink Prairie, but by 1850 it was referred to simply as Mink. There was a blacksmith shop in the settlement by the early 1850s. After the Civil War an influx of settlers from Tennessee and Kentucky into southwestern Montgomery County accelerated the development of the community. During the 1870s a Grange hall was built that also functioned as an interdenominational church, a schoolhouse, and a civic center. Soon a cotton gin was established, and a Methodist church was constructed near the Grange hall. A post office opened in the community in 1885. By 1896 Mink had a general store, two churches, two flour mills, and a population of 300. In 1902 the International-Great Northern Railroad constructed its Spring-to-Navasota branch line through southwestern Montgomery County, bypassing Mink to the north. Its residents and businesses rapidly moved onto the rail line at the new town of Magnolia two miles northeast. The Mink post office was discontinued in 1903, and within a few years the community had been completely abandoned.

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Magnolia Cemetery

1859

This burial ground was in use for decades before Tom J. Goodson (1858-1913) and wife, Winnie May (1867-1911), deeded it to the Baptist church on May 3, 1909. Land gifts in 1945 by their son, Lester (1898-1978), and by C.H. Daniel, a local land and sawmill owner who donated land again in 1967, have allowed for expansion. The earliest marked graves belong to brothers, James A. (1859-1878) and William H. (1861-1878) Proctor; how they died just days apart is now forgotten. Honored here are veterans of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. This site remains a chronicle of the generations who are the heritage of the Magnolia area. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2001

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Things to Do in Pinehurst

historical 9.0 mi away
Tomball ISD Stadium

A $35 million high school football cathedral — because in Texas the stadium is the town square. Friday night lights at their finest.
food 8.6 mi away
Goodson's Cafe

Tomball cafe on State Highway 249, north of Houston. Ella Goodson took over the place in 1954, and the chicken-fried steak here has been called the best in…
quirky 13.0 mi away
Court Amber Trail Cottage

A tidy blue cottage tucked into a Cypress subdivision. Proof that charm doesn't need acreage.

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