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Methodist
Church in Maysfield
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone, 8-15-04 |
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History in
a Pecan Shell
The town had
been known as "Old Graball" (no explanation given). When a man named
Thomas Newton Mayes arrived in 1853, the people of town were happy
to name it after him.
The post office was opened in 1868 and in 1884 Maysfield had a population
of 250.
Maysfield, even though it was without a railroad, was on a stage
line between Calvert and Cameron.
The economy was strong enough to support a gristmill
and cotton gin. From the end of the Civil War into the 1890s, several
railroads planned to connect Calvert
or Hearne to Cameron
and on to Bell County making Maysfield an important stop. Nothing
materialized and Maysfield was bypassed.
By the mid-1890s only 150 residents were reported. Maysfield's population
was remained at 124 from the 30s to the 60s. The town's history
seems to have been uneventful as well. Finally in the late 1960s
the Maysfield school consolidated with the ISD in Cameron.
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Maysfield
Presbyterian Church
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Presbyterian
Church in Maysfield
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone, 8-15-04 |
Maysfield
Presbyterian Church interior
Photo courtesy Elaine Dobos, November 2007 |
| Photo
courtesy Elaine Dobos, November 2007 |
| Photo
courtesy Elaine Dobos, November 2007 |
| Photo
courtesy Erik Whetstone, 8-15-04 |
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