Laurelia
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 30.970, -94.822
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: The town was founded after Judge Claiborne Holshausen built a sawmill in 1880.
History
Laurelia is a ghost town in central Polk County, Texas, United States. The town was founded after Judge Claiborne Holshausen built a sawmill in 1880. The location grew into a town and was named for the laurels that dominated the area. The mill remained the nucleus of the town, and after the sawmill burned in 1913, the town dwindled.