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Teague began around the time of the Civil War as a small Freestone County settlement called Brewer, which by 1895 had a post office and a Baptist church but no railroad.

Teague's modern life started in 1906, when the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway built through the town and located its machine and car shops there, turning it into a railroad hub.

Railroad magnate Benjamin Franklin Yoakum renamed the town Teague in honor of his mother, Narcissa Teague, whose parents were early pioneers in Freestone County.

Teague incorporated in 1906 and was officially recognized as a city in 1907.

Teague boomed as a shipping center for area cotton farmers, and by 1914 it had about 3,300 people, three banks, two cotton gins, a cottonseed oil mill, a cotton compress, an electric light plant, and several newspapers.

Teague is the largest city in Freestone County, even though the county seat is Fairfield, about ten miles northeast on U.S. Highway 84.

Locals pronounce the name Teague as 'TIG,' a one-syllable shorthand that often surprises first-time visitors.

Teague had a population of 3,384 at the 2020 census, living in 1,322 households, down from a modern peak of 4,557 people in 2000.

Teague covers about 5.2 square miles at the junction of U.S. Highway 84, State Highway 179, and Farm Roads 80 and 145 in western Freestone County.

Teague even has its own small airport, a roughly 3,300-foot strip used mostly for recreational flying.