Lake Palestine, Smith County & East Texas

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The History Of Lake Palestine & East Texas
Lake Palestine is surrounded by several smaller towns and is in an area
that is centrally located between Tyler Texas and 3 other larger cities in East Texas

The earliest Native Americans inhabiting what is now
Smith County, were Caddo or Tejas Indians, for whom
the Spanish named the present Texas. The forced removal of the Indians from East Texas in 1839 opened the area for Anglo settlement.

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At first, some settlers took over salt works left by the Indians. Later, settlers began clearing farms. Smith County was one of several new counties formed by the new Texas State Legislature in 1846, and was named for General James Smith, who fought for Texas' independence and served during the Indian Wars. The county grew rapidly throughout the decade before the Civil War, with agriculture remaining dominant in throughout the 19th century. The Civil War brought a flurry of activity with 1,500+ Smith County men serving in the Confederacy or for the State of Texas. With the Civil War's end in 1865, survivors came home as Union occupation forces arrived to reestablish Federal control. The railroads came in the 1870s, and the county began another period of rapid agricultural growth that lasted until the turn of the century. There was also no Great Depression in Smith County during the 1930s because of the discovery of the great East Texas Oil Field.

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