Minden, Texas

Minden is an

History

The original location of Minden was a mile east of where it currently stands today. The Lewis family relocated here from Georgia in 1849. H.W. Watson named the community for his hometown of Minden, Louisiana. A post office opened here in 1850 with William H. Pate serving as the first postmaster. In the next decade, the Marshall-to-Nacogdoches railroad built a track through Minden and had a store and a church. It then moved to its present site in the 1880s, in which it had 50 residents, a cotton gin, and three churches in 1884. The population went up to 155 with sawmills, gristmills, and a newspaper. It doubled during that decade but went down to 223 by the turn of the century. It went up to 250 in the mid-1940s, declined to 125 from the 1950s to 1960s, and went back up to 350 from the late 1960s through 2000.^[1]

Geography

Minden is located on

Minden had its own school in 1860. Rock Hill Institute was opened by G.I. Watkins in 1880 and was chartered in 1888.[1] Today, the community is served by the Henderson Independent School District.

Notable person

• Oren Arnold, journalist and novelist, was born in Minden.^[4]

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