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History in a Pecan
Shell
Firs
First settled in the 1850s, initial settlers included the Barnes and Dee Families.
Growth was slow but steady through the 1880s as the community added a cotton gin
and post office (sometime prior to 1873). The community finally platted a town
site in the mid 1870s . Barnesville was along the Waxahachie-Cleburne
stageline.
The population was 150 in the mid-1880s and Barnesville’s future
seemed assured. But it was bypassed in the early 1880s by not one, but two railroads
(the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas). The town
continued on for some years but the writing was on the walls and Barnesville disappeared
from maps shortly after the turn of the 20th Century.
There is a Barnesville
cemetery about 6 miles SE of Alvarado, but it
isn’t known if this is the cemetery of the Barnesville Community. |
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