Founded as a logging community in 1898 by Hal Aldridge, he established the town deep within the forests of Jasper County, with the intention of taking advantage of the area’s ….Aldridge, Texas. Nestled deep within the piney woods of the Angelina National Forest sits one of the most intact of all of East Texas’ numerous ghost towns. In the following three years, the residents of the small mining village decided to file for a town plat included in the town's plat was enough room to hold twice the population of Hillsboro.Aldridge, Texas. In 1884, Hillsboro became the county seat following the creation of Sierra County. The town's post office opened in 1879 and has never closed. You can still see some of the old concrete foundations. The ghost town has been reduced to a handful of buildings and is now located within Kimball Bend Park. Some of these towns may not be ghost towns in the true sense of the word but they are not what they were before and have seen steep declines in their populations.
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