Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 80, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 28, 2008 Page: 3 of 48
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POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE • SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,2009♦PAGE 3A
There are four faces of old Lo- sr'-ipw
banillo, which straddles East Tex- ‘" '
as’ oldest highway less than 20
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But overriding the name is the
fact that the site is considered to
be one the oldest places continu- <. ’'Ayflfl
ously occupied in East Texas. ’
First, of course, was El Loba-
nillo, the pueblo of Gil Ybarbo,
where his mother and other refu : gSgB HBHR9HBfiKg
gees remained when Spain evacu- > '} eK
ated colonists from western Loui- £.PmS HHnRtli
siana and East Texas in 1773.
When Lobanillo exchanged
hands, it was known as Shawnee * ^'-|P1S
Village and later as Jimtown, a
name shaped after the first names j BHMBBMHBMi
of Jim Halbert and Jim Willis.
And, finally, along came Ge-
neva, today’s name for the town '
at the intersection of El Camino .
Real (Texas Highway 21) and k*i,B t''> '*l,V-• 'V•' ■
Farm Road 330 in northwestern
Sabine County.
To tell the town’s story, you
have to reach back to when Ybar- L/f
bo was born at Los Adaes, Louisi-
ana, then the provincial capital of
Spanish Texas, in 1729. His'par-
ents were colonists sent to Texas
the same year from Andalusia,
At Los Adaes, Ybarbo married
Maria Padilla and they settled on
Lobanillo Creek In what is now
Sabine County They called their A Texas Historical Marker n
place Rancho Lobanillo. mained when Spain evacuatec
When Spain recommended the an£j East Texas in 1773. The
abandonment of its missions and continuously occupied site in
forts in East Texas, Ybarbo be-
came the leader of the displaced Nacogdoches,
persons of the area, who were Lobanillo apparently did nc
given the choice of settling at San ^avc a P°st office during the Re
Antonio or the Rio Grande River. Public of Texas years, but on Jul
When Ybarbo petitioned Span- 23, 1884, a U.S. post office wa
ish authorities to let the settlers established with the name Genev
return to their homes in East ancl William W. Johnson as th
Texas in 1774, they were allowed first postmaster,
to travel as far east as the Trin- 1° the latter part of the 1800s
ity River, where they founded the Geneva began to grow and soo
town of Bucareli in present-day bad a population of 150. It ac
Madison County. quired several cotton gins, a grisl
But Ybarbo and his fellow set- mil1- a hotel- tvvo churches, a liv
tiers soon abandoned Bucareli ery stable and at least five stores
and went to what is now Nacog- Sabine County’s first indepen
doches, where he is credited with dent school district was organize
laying out the town. He died at his at Geneva in 1904. During th
home on the Attoyac River near 1934-1935 school year, the com
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New Israel, Drew's Landing
A new book by Lufkin authors died with the arrival of the Civ
Bob and Doris Bowman, War.
“Forgotten Towns of East • Fort Teran was a settlemer
Texas," includes seven historic built in 1831 on the Necht
communities in Polk, Tyler, San River in Tyler County to prevei
Jacinto and Trinity counties. the migration of settlers from th
They include: South into Mexican Texas.
• Ndw Israel, a religious colony • Palmetto was a short-live
founded in 1895 near Livingston sawmill town that rose from th
ill Polk County when a plot of forests near Oakhurst in Sa
land was deeded to “the Lord God Jacinto County. Only Palmett
of Israel, Creator of Heaven and Cemetery remains at the sit
Earth” by Joseph Peebles. The today.
colony lasted less than a decade. * Saron, a sawmill towr
• Drew's Landing, a steamboat was built eight miles west c
landing founded on the Trinity Groveton by lumberman Williar
River by Monroe Drew in Polk Cameron and friends. Some c
and San Jacinto counties. The the sawmill's ruins still stand o
town flourished until the end of the site beside Texas Hlghwa
the Civil Wkr. 94
• ilrnum, a sawmill town Over the last five years, th
founded by W,T„ Carter a few iowmans have traveled an
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Reddell, Valerie. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 80, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 28, 2008, newspaper, September 28, 2008; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth658612/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.