Alsdorf Alsdorf was on a spur off State Highway 34 five miles northeast of Ennis in east central Ellis County.  It is located midway between Sand Lake and Crisp near the Kaufman County line. The catalyst for settlement was the arrival of the Texas and New Orleans Railroad in the 1880s.  The town was named Faulkner after Alsdorf Faulkner, general passenger agent for the railroad. Faulkner's home was an early social center.  The name Alsdorf was adopted in 1895 when the settlement received a post office.  By 1900 Alsdorf had a general store and a frame church and school building.  In addition two cotton gins and the tracks of the Texas and New Orleans Railroad combined to make the town a shipping point for local cotton.  Alsdorf's population never exceeded 100.  In 1920, the post office closed.  In 1933, the community had an estimated seventy-five residents and two businesses. By 1949, the last year for which figures are available, the population had declined to fifty. There are still a number of families living in the small community, and an Afro-American Cemetery is located in the center of a private field, but few, if any, stones are left. References: "ALSDORF, TX" The Handbook of Texas Online   Copyright © 2002-2016, Ellis County TXGenWeb. All Rights Reserved. This page was last modified: Monday, 10-Sep-2018 10:23:32 MDT