Acol Post Office: History of a Boxcar Post Office in Texas
By: Megan Biesele
Published: 1952
Updated: November 1, 1994
Acol was a boxcar post office of the Angelina County Lumber Company; the name of the office is an acronym of the company name. The Acol post office is associated with a site on the Southern Pacific Railway in northern Tyler County four miles northeast of Colmesneil. It served the lumber company's logging camps in Angelina, Tyler, and Polk counties during the 1930s and 1940s. When the office needed to be moved, it was hooked to a locomotive and rolled to its new location.
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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
Megan Biesele, “Acol, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed March 09, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/acol-tx.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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HVA02
- 1952
- November 1, 1994
