Joaquin, TX, United States
Site of Truitt Community. Also known as Willow Grove, this early Texas community was named for its founder, pioneer settler James Truitt (1795-1870). Truitt was a Republic of Texas congressman, a state legislator and military company leader in the Regulator-Moderator War (1839-1844). He and his elde
st son, Alfred M. Truitt, later a veteran of the Mexican War and the American Civil War, opened a store here along an early trade route about 1840. The store became a stopping place for pioneers movin
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