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History in
a Pecan Shell
Originally called
Hagan's Port because it was a crossing point on the Sulphur
River, the space between the two words was omitted after 1857 when
a post office opened here.
After the Civil War the post office closed, to reopen in the year
of America’s Centennial. The population in the mid 1880s reached 150.
Hagensport had the essential businesses (a gin and a mill) as well
as a school and four churches.
Over the years Hagansport drifted from its river location to where
it is today. The post office closed for good in 1929 although it retained
four businesses into the Great Depression. The population went from
125 in the 1930s to a mere 40 residents by the 1980s where it remained
for the 2000 census. |
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