Joyce Last Day [Cover]
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Joyce "Last Day" [Cover]Description
A “Last Day” cover postmarked on September 30, 1940, on the final day of business of the Joyce Post Office. Handdrawn cachet by Gladys Adler of Bellaire, Texas.Context
Joyce, near Maud off present-day U.S. Highway 67 fourteen miles southwest of Texarkana in south central Bowie County, was probably first settled after the Civil War. At its height around 1900 it had a store, a church, and a few houses. When Wright Patman Lake was constructed in the mid-1950s, much of the area was inundated, and the site was abandoned.Category
Texas Folk Art: One-Hundred Fifty Years of the Southwestern Tradition, Discontinued Post Offices (DPOs)
Urbanization, TSHA Categories