Delta County Texas — Welcome

Source:
Texas State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1884-1885
T 917.54
T 312p
1884-85
page 535
Repository: The Center for American History at The University of Texas — Austin

MOUNT JOY. — A postoffice in Delta County, 344 miles northeast of Austin, 9 1/2 miles northeast of Cooper, the county seat, and 18 south of Paris, the nearest railroad and banking point. It contains 3 steam cotton gins, a grist mill and a shingle factory. Stages daily to Cooper; fare, $2. Population, 100. Mail, daily. W. R. Brigman, postmaster.

     Ackard, J. A., dry goods.
     Anderson, C. E., general store.
     Anderson, W. T., blacksmith.
     Cariker, Samuel, wood worker.
     Enloe & Coston, General Store.
     Jones, J. M., general store.
     Joy, — , agt Co-operative Assn, genl store.
     Sandrige, W. H., blacksmith.
     Skidmore, — , blacksmith.