Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Trinity, TX

Trinity is the largest city in Trinity County, even though the county seat is Groveton.

Trinity was founded in the winter of 1872-73 as a station on the Houston and Great Northern Railroad, on land purchased from the New York and Texas Land Company at a site earlier called Kayser's Prairie.

The town was first named Trinity Station for the nearby Trinity River, then Trinity City, and finally simply Trinity; it incorporated in 1910.

Trinity briefly served as the Trinity County seat in 1873-74, after Sumpter's courthouse burned and the railroad bypassed Sumpter, before the seat moved on to Pennington.

In August 1872, gunfighter John Wesley Hardin was wounded in a saloon shootout in Trinity — the famous Hardin-Sublet gunfight at John Gates' saloon.

Lumber built Trinity: the Texas Long Leaf Lumber Company mill reached 140,000 board feet of production a day during World War II and won the Army-Navy 'E' Award in 1944, but the mill's closing in 1955 devastated the local economy.

The Old Red Schoolhouse, completed in 1915, taught Trinity's children for 80 years and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The 2020 census counted 2,343 people in Trinity, living in 895 households — and the town still gets by with just two stoplights despite sitting 80 miles north of Houston.

Trinity's official motto is 'You'll never want to leave!'

NFL Hall of Fame halfback and Olympic medalist Ollie Matson was born in Trinity in 1930, and journalist Linda Ellerbee and novelist William Goyen also hail from the town.