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History · Golinda

Half of Golinda’s homes were built after 1985

Most of Golinda was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985. Below: 1 old photo or paper.

0on the National Register
8%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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What stands out about Golinda’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Golinda came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Golinda.

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Golinda was the home of Sank Majors, a Black man who was lynched by a white mob in Waco in 1905. According to a contemporary account in The Houston Post, the people in the mob came from the Golinda area.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Golinda, decade by decade

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Then & now

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Famous people

Famous people close to Golinda

Nobody well known was born in Golinda itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Jennifer Love HewittAmerican actress and singer · b. 1979
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Steve MartinAmerican comedian, actor, musician and writer · b. 1945
Ashlee SimpsonAmerican singer and actress · b. 1984
C. Wright MillsAmerican sociologist · b. 1916
E. Donnall ThomasAmerican hematologist · b. 1920
Rip TornAmerican actor · b. 1931
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Another post office, Golindo, opened and closed inside today’s town.

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Golinda’s history

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (2), Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.