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History in a water-logged
Pecan shell
The town was originally on Cowhouse Creek where a mill
was built in the late 1860s. A post office opened in 1873 (closed in 1920) and
although the town started out small, by 1890 thirty-five Spartans called the place
home. By 1896 it was up to seventy-five people and the school had an enrollment
of fifty-two by 1903. Sparta's population probably never exceeded 100 and 1933
seemed to have been the town's zenith.
Sparta was inundated for the creation
of Lake Belton in the 1950s by impounding the Leon River. | |
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