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GLEN,
TEXAS
Texas Ghost Town
Chambers County, Gulf Coast / East Texas
50 Miles SW of
Beaumont
Population: Absorbed by Oak Island
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History in a Pecan
Shell
The community was located on what has evolved into FM 563 near present-day
Oak Island. The Glen post office opened in 1905 and closed in 1918. The town suffered
a major hurricane in 1915 followed by a severe freeze the following year. Local
farmers that managed to survive these two calamities, were further hit by plunging
prices for crops after the end of WWI. The site of the town was part of the Brown
and Root shipyard in the 1970s. |
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