New York is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Henderson County,
Texas
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, 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
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, surrounded mostly by farm land. It is 87 miles east of
Dallas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...
.
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
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s and
cotton gin
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s, 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.Athens, Texas
Athens is a city and the county seat of Henderson County, Texas, Henderson County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city population was 12,857. The city has called itself the "black-eyed pea, Bla ...
.
Demographics
In 1992 the town included the Reynolds store, a Baptist
Baptists are a Christian denomination, denomination within Protestant Christianity distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete Immersion baptism, immersion. Baptist churches ge ...
church, and a population of 20.
See also
* Texas, New York
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