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Pleasant Grove
Community Center.
Photo courtesyDustin
Martin,
October 2016 |
Photographer's
Note:
"While driving around Wood
County I happened upon a community that I think may be a ghost
town. Pleasant Grove is in Wood County 2 miles east of Coke
and 9 miles west of Winnsboro."
History in
a Pecan Shell
Settled around
1870, it was formally founded in 1872 with the building of a blacksmith's
forge. Two years later, a church was built that also served as a school.
The community got its first store in 1887.
Pleasant Grove was granted a post office in 1892 which stayed open
through 1907. The population broke the 100 resident mark in 1896 when
it had three churches and a two-story school. A new school was constructed
in the mid1920s.
The business district suffered a fire in the early 1930s midway through
that decade, the population was 82. After WWII,
there was no official population count and by 1960 only scattered
housing and a church were left. By 1988 the church was gone. Nevertheless,
thirty people were counted for the 2000 census. |
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Abandoned garage
behind the gas station.
Photo courtesy Dustin
Martin,
October 2016 |
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