Joiner, Texas. (original) (raw)

Joiner Road
TE Photo, January 2010

Photographer�s Note:
�Today only Joiner Road is left. A dead end � but a picturesque dead end.�

Joiner Road is marked on Highway 71 between La Grange and Ellinger

History in a Pecan Shell

Joiner began life as a stop on the Columbus-La Grange Tap Railroad in the early 1880s. The town was a source of gravel and ties for the railroad.

The railroad connected with the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad prior to 1899 when a flood washed away the railroad�s Colorado River bridge.

The community, such as it was, disappeared shortly thereafter.

Joiner road today shows ranching and dairy farming existing alongside functioning gas and oil infrastructure � all in a bucolic environment.

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