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Riverland
Cemetery
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson, February 2007 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
During the Civil War the area was evacuated due to Indian attacks.
The town didn’t develop until several years after the war was over.
A post office was granted in 1875 although the town only had a population
of 50 in the 1880s. With no hope of getting a railroad, Riverland
remained under-populated and in 1905 the post office closed. A two-room,
seven-grade school was still in operation in the 1930s, and a few
essential businesses held on, but in 1936 the population was a mere
20. The building fell to ruin and today only the cemetery is left
along with a few scattered residences. |
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