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Lanham
Methodist Church and Cemetery
Photo Coutesy Barclay
Gibson , February 2008 |
History on
a Pinhead
Settled in the 1870s, the town got off to a slow start. By 1890 the
population was a mere 35 residents. Louis Lanham was a storekeeper
that year and probably the town’s postmaster. The post office was
in operation from 1884 until 1906. It reached its high-water mark
in 1910 with 125 people and three businesses.
Little is known of the intervening years, but after WWII
the population declined to only 30 residents and over time they, too,
moved. |
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