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PRAIRIE POINT, TEXAS
aka Prairie, Texas

Texas Ghost Town
Houston County, East Texas

FM 230
4 Miles SW of Lovelady
Population: Unknown

Prairie Point, Texas Area Hotels > Crockett Hotels
History on a Pinhead

Settled in the 1850s, a post office was opened under the name Prairie, Texas in 1857 and managed to stay open until 1872. A school opened sometime before 1897.

The town's history has been uneventful and by the time the Great Depression arrived, there was only a church, school and scattered houses. The school merged with Lovelady after WWII, and by the mid-1960s only the cemetery remained.
Texas - Houston County 1907 postal map
1907 Houston County postal map showing Lovelady
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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