Delta County Texas — Welcome

Source:
Texas State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1884-1885
T 917.54
T 312p
1884-85
page 206
Repository: The Center for American History at The University of Texas — Austin

CHARLESTON. — A post village on Sulphur river, in Delta County 347 miles northeast of Austin, 12 east of Cooper, the county seat and 19 southeast of Paris, the nearest railroad station and banking point. Settled in 1854, it contains steam grist and saw-mills, a church and a public school. Cotton is the principal shipment. Population, 250. Mail, semi-weekly. Z. R. Terrell, postmaster.

     Bledsoe & Terrell, flour mill.
     Logsdon, S. N., general store.
     Simpson, J. B., wagonmaker.
     Simpson, J. D., wagonmaker.
     Terrell, Z. R., General Store.
     Terrell & Co., general store.
     Wilson, J. W., grist and saw-mill.
     Wood, Wm., teacher.