Leesburg, Texas


Leesburg is an unincorporated community in southwestern Camp County, Texas, United States. Although Leesburg is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 75451.

History

It was the site of the public burning of nineteen-year-old Wylie McNeely in 1921. Five hundred white people gathered to watch McNeely, who was black, be burned alive at a stake by a mob after he was accused of assault by a white girl.

Geography

Leesburg lies along Texas State Highway 11 on the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, west of the city of Pittsburg in western Camp County.

Education

Leesburg had two schools in 1896. Since 1955, its schools have been consolidated into the Pittsburg Independent School District.

Notable people