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"Wiergate is on Farm Road 1415 just off State highways 87 and 63, seventy miles northeast of Beaumont in north central Newton County. ... a mill with a cutting capacity of 200,000 board feet every ten hours. In its heyday Wiergate was in all respects a company town. With a peak population of perhaps as many as 2,500 persons, it had a company-owned commissary, a drugstore, a barbershop, an ice plant, a depot, a swimming pool, a movie theater, and two schools and community houses (one for blacks, one for whites)."

Resources in This Category

• Handbook of Texas Online: Wiergate

  http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hlw34
  Brief history and description.

• John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern Recording Trip Fieldnotes

  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lomax:@field(DOCID+@lit(fn0014))
  From Wiergate Lumber Company foreman Henry Truvillion, and students at Wiergate High School.

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