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Handbook of Texas Online: |
 | | Malakoff is at the junction of State highways 31 and 198 and Farm roads 2636, 3062, and 3441, eight miles west of Athens in western Henderson County. |
 | | Malakoff was a thriving community with a church, several mercantile stores, a flsmith's shop, a saloon, two cotton gins, and a subscription school. |
 | | Between 1920 and 1940 the town's population grew rapidly, from 750 in 1920, to 1,200 in 1930, and 2,168 in 1940. |
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