New York is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in
Henderson County,
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
, United States, about 11 miles east of
Athens
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.
Geography
New York lies at the intersection of
FM 804 and
FM 607 in a hilly portion of
East Texas
East Texas is a broadly defined cultural, geographic, and ecological region in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas that comprises most of 41 counties. It is primarily divided into Northeast and Southeast Texas. Most of the region cons ...
, surrounded mostly by farm land. It is 87 miles east of
Dallas
Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...
.
History
New York was first settled around 1856 by James C. Walker, Davis Reynolds, Jesse M. Forester, and A. M. Otts at a location south of the present site. The present site was settled in 1873. The community was reportedly named either by T. B. Herndon as a joke or by Reynolds because of his hopes for the town's future.
[''Handbook of Texas Online'', s.v]
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrn19
(accessed September 22, 2006). By 1884 New York had two steam
gristmill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been separat ...
s and
cotton gins, two churches, a district school, and a population of 60, which rose to 100 by 1892. A post office operated there from 1876 to the first decade of the 1900s.
The town declined after it was bypassed by the railroad in 1901. Its school was consolidated with the
Poynor system in 1936.
In 1986,
NYTXCCC
/ref> nearby Dunsavage Farms (a restaurant, antique shop, and bed and breakfast) began to market "New York, Texas, Cheesecake", which became nationally known by 1992.
Demographics
In 1992 the town included the Reynolds store, a Baptist
Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only ( believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul compe ...
church, and a population of 20.
See also
* Texas, New York
Texas is a hamlet in Oswego County, New York, United States, near the southeastern corner of Lake Ontario. It is officially part of the town of Mexico.
Geography
Texas lies on Little Salmon River, approximately above the mouth of that river ...
References
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Unincorporated communities in Henderson County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
1850s establishments in Texas
Populated places established in the 1850s