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MARYETTA, TEXAS

Jack County, North Central Texas
Highway 59
6 miles NE of Jacksboro
Population: 7 (est 1990)

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History in a Pecan Shell

According to the Handbook of Texas, the town had an estimated population of 87 people as late as 1986. Today the only sign that it was a community is a vacant one-room school house and a ruin of a former gas station / garage.

Former gas station
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, 2005
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From __?__ until the late 1970's the old schoolhouse was used weekly as a domino hall. - Scott Gleason, March 06, 2006


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