Macedonia, Liberty County, Texas

Macedonia is an Unincorporated community in northern Liberty County, Texas. Formerly a distinct community, it is located 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of the junction of Texas State Highway 321 and Farm to Market Road 1008 and 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Liberty.^[1]

In 1914 a syndicate in Chicago, Illinois purchased 12,000 acres (4,900 ha) of land near the Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway to form a community of Greek people that was intended to supply truck crops to supply the Galveston and Houston markets. The syndicate named the community "Macedonia," after a Baptist church in the area that had been established in 1845. Some Greek people worked at the local sawmills; the community did not organize in a manner that the founders had intended. A post office opened in 1915 and closed in 1922. Population estimates in subsequent decades ranged from 15 to 25. In the 1950s the population was mostly African-American. In 1984 several scattered buildings and a church remained at the site.^[1]

References

External links

• Macedonia, Texas (Liberty County) from the Handbook of Texas Online

Municipalities and communities of Liberty County, Texas, United States County seat: Liberty Cities Ames Cleveland Daisetta Dayton Dayton Lakes Devers Hardin Liberty Mont Belvieu‡ North Cleveland Old River-Winfree‡ Plum Grove Town Kenefick CDPs Big Thicket Lake Estates‡ Hull Other unincorporated communities Dolen Eastgate Hightower Hoop and Holler Macedonia Moss Bluff Moss Hill Rayburn Raywood Romayor Rye Stilson Tarkington Prairie Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 30°15′46″N 94°53′24″W / 30.26278°N 94.89000°W / 30.26278; -94.89000