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Hardin County is located on the flat
coastal plains of Southeast Texas, roughly thirty miles (50 km)
north of the Gulf of Mexico. The county is largely covered by the
dense forest of the Big Thicket. The seat of the county is
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Seeking the healing powers of the mud
and mineral waters of a two-acre pond known to them as Medicine
Lake, East Texas Indians began to visit the Sour Lake area of Hardin
County long before the region became a part of the Atascosito
District of Spanish and Mexican Texas.
Before the end of 1835 Stephen Jackson
had founded a settlement at Sour Lake; by 1850 it was recognized as
a health resort. Concord (now Loeb), a port town on Pine Island
Bayou, developed soon after the Sour Lake settlement began.
Saratoga, another health resort with medicinal springs, was also
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After the revolution of 1836 the area
was split between the jurisdictions of Liberty and Jefferson
counties. By 1858 the region's population had increased sufficiently
to warrant establishment of its own county government. In response,
the state legislature established Hardin County. Legislators
specified that the county's name honor the Hardin family of Liberty.
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Cities and towns |
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Batson
(unincorporated)
Kountze
Lumberton
Pinewood Estates (unincorporated)
Rose Hill Acres
Saratoga (unincorporated)
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Silsbee
Sour Lake
Thicket (unincorporated)
Votaw (unincorporated)
Village Mills (unincorporated)
Wildwood (unincorporated)
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