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AUSTONIO, TEXASHouston County
Highway 21
14 Miles SW of Crockett
Population
37 (est since 1990)
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Originally called Pearville, the name wasn't popular with residents
and so they held a contest in 1930. Ruth Tucker won the contest with
the name Austonio - an amalgam of Austin and San Antonio. The fact
that the town is easily 250 miles from either city evidently didn't
count. A post office was granted in 1932 and in 1940 there were 150
people to call Austonio home. The decline set in after WWII and school
consolidation with Lovelady in 1964
shattered any hopes of regaining population. The post office closed
its doors in 1971, followed by the other stores that closed one by
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