Editing Trinity, Texas (section)

==History==
Trinity was founded in 1872 (possibly earlier as there is an 1870 Census for Trinity, Texas taken on 19 July, 1870) on land purchased from the New York and Texas Land Company. The town was a railroad station on the Houston and Great Northern Railroad.<ref name="TRINITY, TX TRINITY COUNTY">{{cite web| url= https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjt10|title= TRINITY, TX (TRINITY COUNTY)|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=July 28, 2012}}</ref>

The town was originally named Trinity Station after the Trinity River. The name of the town was later changed to Trinity City, then to Trinity. The town was incorporated in 1910.<ref name="TRINITY, TX TRINITY COUNTY"/>

===Civilian Conservation Corps===
A camp site for [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] Company 839 was established 1.6 miles east of Trinity on June 8, 1933. The company was under the command of Captain Charles H Brammel and the medical department was under the direction of Dr H H Thornton. The field activities of the camp were mainly construction and maintenance of fire lanes, fire break roads and telephone lines.<ref name="TCB-104" />

===Texas Long Leaf Lumber Company===
[[Image:Texas_Long_Leaf_Lumber_Company_Trinity_Texas.jpg|100px|thumb|left|Texas Long Leaf Lumber Company Historical Marker]]
In 1907, Thompson Brothers' Lumber Company built a [[Sawmill|mill]] and 37 acre pond at Trinity. Texas Long Leaf Lumber Company, which started at Willard in 1912, bought Thompson Brothers' Trinity mill in 1922. Under management of Paul Sanderson for 22 years, the company was one of the nation's most successful manufacturers of [[Yellow Pine]] and Southern Hardwoods. During [[World War II]], production reached 140,000 board feet daily, resulting in lumber flown to Europe and Africa and the awarding of the [[Army-Navy "E" Award]] in 1944. As one of the largest employers in Trinity, the closing of the mill in 1955 had a devastating impact on the local economy.<ref name="TLLLC-2017" /><ref name="TS-2016" />

===Hardin-Sublet Gunfight===
On August 7, 1872, [[John Wesley Hardin]] and Phil Sublet got into a gambling dispute at John Gates' Saloon.  The saloon was a plank structure with a bar and a ten pin alley.  After making peace, Sublet left the saloon and called out Hardin from the street south of the front door.  Hardin appeared at that door and Sublet fired one shot at him.  Hardin returned
fire not intending to kill him.  Distracted, Hardin was pulled into a middle door and Sublet wounded him with the other barrel of his shotgun. Hardin then went after him through the streets and into a dry goods store.  After a pistol malfunction, Hardin fired again and hit Sublet in the shoulder.  Too weak from his wounds, Hardin was unable to pursue him.<ref name="JWH" />