Source:  

  TEXAS: Her Resources and Capabilities Being A Description of the State of 
  Texas and the Inducements She Offers to Those Seeking Homes in a New County.
  
  Issued by The South Western Immigration Company
  
  E. D. Slater
  General Book and Jobbing Printer
  153 & 155 Fulton Street, N. Y.
  1881
  
  [Page 215]
  
                     FREESTONE COUNTY
  (Area, 883 square miles.  Population, 14,922.)
  
Across which the International and Great Northern railroad runs a distance of
about three miles.  This county adjoins Leon on the north, its eastern boundary
being the Trinity River, and its southern line being only a few miles from the 
International and Great Northern railroad.

In all natural and agricultural features, Freestone closely resembles Leon, which
is next described.  The principal business and shipping points of the middle and
southern portions of the county are Buffalo and Oakwoods, on the International 
and Great Northern railroad.