Pollok is an unincorporated community in Angelina County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 300 in 2000. It is located within the Lufkin, Texas micropolitan area. History The area around Pollok was first settled in the 1880s and was established as a sawmill center when Richard Blair built one on the railroad about six miles northwest of Clawson. The station was known as Bodan and was named after Frenchman Francis D. Bodan, who was the manager of a store on the old smuggler's road some north of Nacogdoches. A post office was established in 1886. There were two general stores and a successful sawmill in 1888. A lumber company called the J.A. Young Lumber Company built a mill larger than the original one and was sold to the Bodan Lumber Company in 1899 for $25,000. This company leased land from a man named Henry Claybon for 200 lbs. of salt pork and 4 barrels of flour to be paid annually while the mill was in operation or for 99 years. That same year, mill employees and farmers worked together to build a -by- church that was built with green boxing boards topped with pine shingles. This church building housed Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian congregations, which rotated every Sunday. It was also used as a voting place and a shelter used for the presentation of traveling shows. Bodan increased lumber production to of board per day, causing Pollok to grow to have many tenant houses, a commissary, and several other businesses. The mill then burned down and was sold to two Bodan stockholders named A. Harris and L. Lipsitz. They then built a small mill, cut the remaining lumber, and shut it down. Pollok continued to survive with only portable mills operating and the post office remaining in operation in 1986. Pollok had six businesses and 100 residents in the 1930s. It lost a business in 1964, but the population grew to 350. In 1982 and 1990, Pollok had a population of approximately 300 and three businesses. It still had 300 residents in 2000, but grew to have 48 businesses. Pollok gets its supplies from a small grocery store named The 69 Store which was founded by the Young family. Although Pollok is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP Code of 75969. The Light of Saratoga has been reported