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Kit Cemetery
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courtesy David Cole, 2010 |
History
in a Pecan ShellNow
included as part of Irving, Kit was originally
named Gorbett (sometimes spelled Gorbit). The namesake was early
resident John B. Gorbett. Somewhere in forgotten trunks on faded yellow envelopes
there are Gorbett, Texas postmarks, for that community had its own post office
from 1889 to 1894.
When the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway was laying
tracks across Dallas County in the 1880s, investors from Gorbett platted a separate
town alongside the proposed route. They may have been long on investment strategy
but they were woefully short on imagination, naming the new community Gorbett
as well. Postal authorities frown on such things and if the new community was
to have a separate post office, it needed a separate name. Kit became the name
of the new post office in 1894 although it only stayed in business for 10 years.
There is no information available as to the source of the new name.
The
railroad bypassed Kit and in 1903 several of the fledgling businesses moved to
be alongside of the tracks at the site of Irving.
The site of Kit eventually became a highway intersection and only the cemetery
remains as proof of its existence.
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Tombstone
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Porcelain Portrait
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Tombstone
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Angel among tombstones
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Kit Cemetery Historical Marker
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courtesy David Cole, 2010 |
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