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History
in a Pecan Shell
The town was born with the arrival of the
Texas and New Orleans Railroad - shortly after 1900. The name that was chosen
for the town was Lucas - for one of the original settlers. But when the application
was denied (there was already a post office named Lucas
in Collin County) the townspeople submitted the name spelled backwards. It worked.
In 1903 the Sacul post office opened and a school opened the following year.
The estimated population in 1914 was 400 and the town had everything it needed,
including no fewer than six general stores, three groceries and of course, a blacksmith,
bank and two cotton gins. |
The Great Depression reduced the population to around 250 people and the businesses
declined to 10. Increased mobility after WWII
continued to draw off people and those who had left never came back. In the mid
1960s Sacul had 170 residents but only four businesses. The old population figure
of 170 continues to appear on state maps.
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Bob Bowman ("Bob Bowman's East Texas" Column)
On the fourth Saturday
night each month, the Nacogdoches County community of Sacul hosts one of the best
country music venues in East Texas--a collection of bands playing mostly bluegrass
standards.... moreBy
Bob Bowman (From "All Things Historical" Column)
"...
As the sun drops behind the forests, the sounds of bluegrass and country music
fill the inside of a century-old building that once housed the town’s mercantile
store, bank, drugstore and post office. It is almost the sole relic of what was
once a small, but thriving, railroad community in the early 1900s..." more
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"It stands south of Sacul at the intersection of FM 1648 and County
Road 898...."
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