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| Former
church / schoolhouse? Photo
courtesy Barclay
Gibson, April 2009 |
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.
Subject:
Maryetta TX info
"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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