Beans (also known as Beans Place, Beans Community, Cross, and Horger)
is an
unincorporated community in
Jasper County
Jasper County is the name of eight counties in the United States of America. All are named in honor of Sergeant William Jasper, a hero of the Revolutionary War. Five counties share a boundary with a Newton County, named for John Newton
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Texas, United States. Beans is located on the west side of the
Angelina River, northwest of
Jasper.
The community was founded in 1904 by Ira S. Bean, who initially named its
post office Horger, in honor of John Miller Horger. In 1925, the Post Office Department established a new post office for Bean's Place to avoid confusion with the towns of
Borger and
Spurger; however, the Horger post office did not close until 1929. Beans had a population of 25 through 1944 and was marked on highway maps as Beans Community through the 1980s.
From 1970 to 1979, Beans was served by a spur route of
Texas Recreational Road 255
Recreational Road 255 (RE 255) is a Recreational Road located in Tyler, Jasper, and Newton counties, in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Texas. The highway is approximately long, and travels through mainly rural areas in t ...
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References
Unincorporated communities in Jasper County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
Populated places established in 1904
1904 establishments in Texas
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