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History in a
Pecan Shell
Dating from a Mexican Land Grant in 1828, Thomas Williams and William Elliott
were the recipients. The community had a pre-Civil War post office which opened
in 1851 and closed soon after the war, reopening in 1870 only to close in 1905.
The town had a population of 150 in the early 1880s which fell to a mere 50 by
1892. It had risen to 100 for 1896 but went into a slow decline and by the mid
1940s, Caledonia was down to 25 residents.
Photographer's Note:
Caledonia
Texas is located on highway US-84 at the intersection of FM-1971, 9-miles east
of Mount Enterprise,
7-miles west of Timpson, 19-miles southwest of
Carthage. |
Caledonia
Methodist Church
Photo courtesy Gerald
Massey, April 2011 |
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