Floy, Texas, Fayette County. (original) (raw)

The closed charcoal plant
TE photo, 2010

History on a Pinhead

Flatonia merchant E.A. Arnim requested that a spur be built here off the mainline of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad. The spur was named after Arnim�s daughter.

It was (like the community named Lena just north along the railroad) a shipping point for cut wood. Like Lena, Floy never developed as much as a single business since Muldoon supplied its needs.

Floy did, however, have its own school. Muldoon, being a voting district and having a post office suppressed any chances of Floy becoming a proper town although it did appear on early maps. A charcoal plant near what had been Floy, is the most noticeable landmark.

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