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History in
a Pecan Shell
The town Clearwater was named for the once-clear water of Cypress
Creek which has since been altered by the construction of Lake Cypress
Springs and Lake Bob Sandlin. Settlement began around the time of
the Civil War and by 1870, it was forming into a proper town with
the primary building blocks of church, store, school and gin. The
earliest population figures come from 1933 when the town reported
25 residents. It had doubled by the end of WWII
but started thinning out. By the 1980s, it was merely a church and
cemetery, with a few scattered houses. |
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