Joshua, Texas Joshua, Texas Location of Joshua, Texas Location of Joshua, Texas Joshua is a town/city in Johnson County, Texas, United States.
Joshua is positioned at 32 27 19 N 97 23 37 W (32.455198, -97.393622). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.5 square miles (17 km2), of which, 6.5 square miles (17 km2) of it is territory and 0.15% is water.
Joshua is at the intersection of State Highway 174 and Farm Road 917, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad seven miles southeast of Burleson and eight miles north of Cleburne in north central Johnson County.
Caddo Grove, two miles west of Joshua, was the first improve in the area.
The barns missed Caddo Grove, and a station was assembled on the tracks at the site of future Joshua.
The plat for Joshua was first surveyed in 1880, and the improve was organized in 1881 when the barns arrived.
By 1890 Joshua had a populace of 300, two steam corn mill- cotton gins, a hotel, a general store, and a newspaper, the Johnson County Record.
The barns shipped farm produce, Joshua's biggest export.
In 1917 this school became Joshua High School.
Truck plant nurseries, orchards, and corn and cotton farms surrounded Joshua.
In 1912 the Fort Worth South Traction Line began to furnish service from Cleburne to Fort Worth and had a stop in Joshua.
By 1914 the improve had a populace of 824, two cotton gins, an ice plant, a bank, a journal titled the Joshua Star, and four churches.
In the mid-1950s Joshua was incorporated, with Ted Strube as the first mayor.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Johnson County History Book Committee, History of Johnson County, Texas (Dallas: Curtis Media, 1985).
Joshua Historical Committee, Joshua: As It Was and Is (Cleburne, Texas, 1977).
"," https://tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/JJ/hjj1.html (accessed July 16, 2006) Excerpted from the Handbook of Texas Online at https://tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/JJ/hjj1.html Copyright The Texas State Historical Association The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint universal of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association.
He journeyed for a several days until he found the region he liked near the geographic feature of Caddo Peak in Johnson County.
West owned and directed a grocery store and postal service in Caddo Grove, until the barns bypassed the small improve of Caddo Grove.
Along with the rest of the businessmen of Caddo Grove, he moved the entire building housing his store into Joshua when the barns came.
West's home on Main Street in Joshua.
Many of the West descendants live in the Joshua region to this day.
West's son Samuel Abe West was a prominent citizen of Joshua for 93 years.
Later he owned the grocery store on Main Street in Joshua (where the private detective agency is positioned now).
Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt Strube was the first mayor of Joshua, Texas about 1949.
His wife, Sylvia Couch Strube, was the first florist of Joshua.
Sylvia continued to run the Joshua Floral from their home on 14th Street until the early 1990s.
Sylvia Strube was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Joshua.
Strube & his wife, Sylvia, are rested in the Rose Hill Cemetery of Cleburne, Texas, sharing a tombstone with Sylvia's mother, Alice Couch, and brother Willis Couch of Johnson County. They had no children.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.7% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
There were 2 African American slaves at the time Joshua was founded.
Public education in Joshua is provided by the Joshua Independent School District.
Joshua ISD Attendance Zone Map Joshua Independent School District.
City of Joshua - Official site.
Joshua Area Chamber of Commerce Municipalities and communities of Johnson County, Texas, United States Alvarado Briaroaks Burleson Cleburne Cresson Crowley Coyote Flats Godley Grandview Joshua Keene Mansfield Rio Vista
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