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History in a Pecan
Shell
Settled
shortly after the Civil War, the area had been known as Geneva until a
post office was applied for in 1872. Citizens were saddened to learn that another
community had beaten them to the name. Since there was a grouping of Elms
in the vicinity, the name Elm Mott was submitted and accepted.
As the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad extended it’s tracks from Hillsboro
to Taylor laid track from Hillsboro
County to Williamson
County, Elm Mott found itself in the right place. With a population of just
40 citizens in the mid 1880s, the town grew to 247 by 1900.
It briefly
broke 300 residents, but drought and the boll
weevil dealt the town a double-whammy – even before the Great Depression arrived.
Somehow the population maintained it’s population around 250.
Highway
expansion in the late 1950s forced many residents to relocate, but the population
stayed just below 300. The population has been given as 190 from the 1970s to
the present (2008). | |
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