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SADLER,
TEXASGrayson County,
Central Texas N
Highway 82, and FM 901
12 Miles N of Sherman
Population:
404 (2000)
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Methodist
Church
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, February 2007 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
The region was settled in the late 1860s. A. J. Cross is credited
with being the first settler and the Handbook of Texas lists Zeke
Hall and Jim Beach as two other early pioneers. The town's namesake
was John Sadler who donated a right-of-way to the Katy Railroad in
the late 1870s. With a railroad connection and a depot, the area now
had the nucleus to form a proper town. Sadler was granted a post office
in 1892.
Population statistics showed about 400 residents from the 1920s into
the mid-30s. The Great Depression, WWII and post war highway improvements
lured residents away and by the mid 1950s the population was just
short of 200. The figures on the 2006 state map show an estimated
population of 404 - about the same as the mid-1920s.
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