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Halls Bluff, Texas
Halls Bluff, Texas is located in Texas
Halls Bluff, Texas
Halls Bluff, Texas
Location in Texas
Halls Bluff, Texas is located in the United States
Halls Bluff, Texas
Halls Bluff, Texas
Location in the United States
Country United States
State Texas
County Houston
Elevation
213 ft (65 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 430 & 903
GNIS feature ID 1379880

Halls Bluff, also known as Hall's Bluff, is a ghost town located in Houston County, Texas, United States. A ghost town is a place where most people have left, and it's mostly empty now.

History

Halls Bluff was founded in the early 1850s. It was named after Joshua James Hall. He was an early pioneer who started a warehouse and shipping business there. This business was on the Trinity River.

Steamboats often stopped in Halls Bluff. They carried cotton down the Trinity River. They also brought goods up from Galveston to Crockett. The town's post office opened in 1852. It operated with some breaks until the mid-1850s.

The town began to decline after 1872. This was when the Houston and Great Northern Railroad reached Crockett. People started to move away. By the mid-1930s, Halls Bluff still had a church and some homes. After World War II, many more people left the community. By the 1960s, only a few scattered houses remained. In the early 1990s, Halls Bluff was described as a spread-out, rural area.

Geography

Halls Bluff is located on the Trinity River. It is about 12 mi (19 km) west of Crockett. This area is in western Houston County.

Education

Halls Bluff had its own school in the mid-1930s. Today, students in the area attend schools in the Crockett Independent School District.

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