Beauxart
Gardens,
originally a
federal
subsistence
homestead
colony, is
between U.S.
Highway
69/96/287 and
Farm Road 823
six miles
southeast of
Beaumont in
eastern
Jefferson
County. Once
the site of
intensive rice
farming by
residents of
Nederland and
Viterbo, the
area was
developed by
the federal
government
during the
Great
Depressionqv
and named for
its location
between
Beaumont and
Port Arthur.
The town plat
was filed in
1934 and
approved by
the
Resettlement
Administration
the following
year. Fifty
families were
located on the
205-acre
tract. The
houses, of
three to six
rooms, also
included 3�
acres for each
family to
cultivate for
its own use.
Inhabitants
worked
part-time at
nearby
refineries and
spent the
remainder of
their working
hours on the
government
truck farm at
Beauxart
Gardens. A
voting
precinct was
established at
Beauxart
Gardens on
August 10,
1942. The
community now
lies slightly
west of the
Jefferson
County
airport.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Beaumont Enterprise,
May 31, 1936.
WPA Federal
Writers'
Project,
Port
Arthur
(Houston:
Anson Jones,
1939).
Robert
Wooster
- Handbook
of Texas
Online,
s.v. ","
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/hrb15.html (accessed
March 3,
2008).
(NOTE: "s.v."
stands for sub
verbo, "under
the word.")
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