Editing Lumberton, Texas (section)

==Historical development==
The town was established as a stop on the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railway that was built through the area in 1894. Serving the local sawmills and [[lumber camp]]s, the post office was established at Lumberton in 1909.<ref name=Tsha>[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjl18 TSHA Online - Texas State Historical Association<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In 1914, the post office was relocated to the Fletcher site nearby, which was a major sawmill until the mid-1920s.<ref name=Tsha /> After the closure of the sawmill at Fletcher, the area remained populated and became part of the city of Lumberton when it was first incorporated in July 1973 when the towns city limits were within Beaumont's jurisdiction; however, two years later in 1975 Beaumont filed two lawsuits challenging Lumberton's right to exist. One lawsuit was with the State of Texas, the other lawsuit was locally. The official judgement declared Lumberton a non-city. Lumberton was able to re-incorporate with new boundaries. Those boundaries are the existing boundaries today which put the city limits at the split between Highway96/69 on the South end and on the North  end at Village Creek. At the time this happened the Mayor of Lumberton was Dannis Robinson and the lawyer was Kenneth Furlow.