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History
in a Pecan Shell The
area was settled around 1846 when a man named Ferdinand Carroll established a
camp on the Jefferson Road. In 1858 a store opened and in 1870 a post office named
Bacchus was opened.
The community was renamed Carroll's Prairie
in 1876 and in 1879 it changed to Carrollton. By 1885 the town had 200
people, six stores, two gristmills, cotton gins, a blacksmith, and a saloon. In
the late 1870s the East Line and Red River Railroad arrived.
The name Carrollton
was causing some confusion with the Dallas County Carrollton, and so a new name
was sought. Settlers from Como, Mississippi suggested the name of their former
town and so it became.
Coal was discovered in 1900 and became an important
industry. A fire in 1910 burned much of the town. 900 people lived in Como in
1914 and they had a weekly newspaper.
In 1932 the community incorporated
about the time many of the mines were closing. The population declined to less
than 400. | |
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