Maydelle, Texas
Unincorporated community in Cherokee County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Maydelle
Maydelle is a small unincorporated community in Cherokee County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 250 in 2000. It is located within the Tyler-Jacksonville combined statistical area.
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How Maydelle is governed
Maydelle appears to be an unincorporated community or a census-designated place, so it may have no city government of its own — services usually come from Cherokee County and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Maydelle does have local officials.
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Residents of Maydelle
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City Clerk
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History
The area in what is known as Maydelle today was first settled in the 1840s. It did not develop into a community until the Texas State Railroad built a track through the area in 1906. A nearby prison called Camp Wright housed convicts who were assigned to cut wood to make charcoal for a prison iron foundry in Rusk. C.D. Jarrarr, N.A. Slover, and J.S. Sherman were given land grants surrounding the prison, and built a new townsite there in 1910. They named it Maydelle for Maydelle Campbell, who was the daughter of former Texas governor Thomas Mitchell Campbell. She sang during the opening of the townsite. Most people from the surrounding communities of Gent, Java, Mount Comfort, and Pine Town settled here. In 1914, the community had 150 residents, Baptist and Christian churches, four general stores, a bank, a cotton gin, and a drugstore. It reached its population zenith of 450 in 1929. The Great Depression caused the population of Maydelle to plunge back to 150, but made a comeback after World War II. The population grew to 250 in the early 1990s, with six businesses, and remained at that level through 2000. It became a popular tourist destination for people who wanted to ride on the restored Texas State Railroad.
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