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History
in a Pecan Shell
Originally settled
in 1830 or earlier, in 1836 a man named Michael Costley platted the
town on 800 acres centered on a square.
General Kelsey Harris Douglass, an early settler and businessman is
the town’s namesake.
Douglass had a stagecoach inn and many essential businesses in the
1830s, including a brick kiln and a sawmill as well as a cotton gin.
A teachers' school was in operation for a brief two year period and
in the late 1920s, the center of town was electrified. Douglass suffered
two devastating fires, the first in 1943 and the second in the mid-1950s.
The population was given as 75 residents for the 1990 census and for
2000, the same figure was given. |
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