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From the research files of June E. Tuck
Sulphur Bluff Businesses, 1884-86, 1890-91, 1914-15
Sulphur Buff, Hopkins County, Texas
(Spelled as was recorded - R. L. Polk Directories)
Sulphur Bluff - 1884-46
It contains a steam grist mill, 3 cotton gins, 3 churches and a school. Ships cotton and live stock. Population 250. Mail, semi-weekly
L. W, Caldwell - physician
A. R. Cunningham - carpenter
Davis & Bro. - cotton gin
D. A. Dawson - cotton gin
J. H. Hargrave - general store
R. G. Harrington - physician
J. E. Hopkins - cotton gin
Joseph Julson - blacksmith
Reuben Miller - blacksmith
W. S. Posey - physician
W. S. Posey a & Son - General store
Sulphur Lumber Co., Wm. Buchanan, Pres., J. H. Bemis, Vice-Pres., T. W. Buchanan, Sec. & Treas.
(W. S. Posey was listed twice this way.)
Sulphur Bluff - 1890 -91
It contains 2 steam grist mills and cotton gins, 2 churches and a school. Population 500. Mail, tri-weekly, D. T.
Lake, postmaster
L. W. Caldwell - physician
G. A. Hinnant - general store
D. T. Lake - Stationery and Notions
C. A. Posey & Bro. - general store
W. S. Posey - physician
Posey & Smith - grist mill and gin
Staten & Hopkins - grist mill and gin
Joseph Tolsen - blacksmith
Sulphur Bluff - 1914-15
Has a Baptist Church and two Methodist Churches, a bank, Telephone connection. J. W. St. Clair, postmaster.
Population 350
Mrs. Ellen Brinton - hotel
B. S. Colley - blacksmith
First State Bank (Capital $20,000.) J. M. Fleming, Pres.; C. E. Mahaffey, Vice Pres.; O.H. Mahaffey, Cashier
Wm. H. Gardner - physician
John L. E. Gray - meats and restaurant
Zelda Harris - notions
Harris & Colley - farm implements
D. B. Hedrick - men's furnishings and grocer
W. A. Hinnant - general store
J. F. Long - cotton gin and grist mill
L. L. Long - blacksmith
Mrs. M. E. Moors - telephone exchange
J. W. St. Clair - furniture and general store
L. L. Shoffit & Co. - garage
George Stephens - physician
Stephens & Harris - drugs and grocers
Sulphur Oil & Gas Co.
Frank A. White - physician
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