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TOOL, TEXASHenderson County,
East Texas
Highway 274
W of the Cedar Creek Reservoir
9 miles S of Gun
Barrel City
58 miles SE of Dallas
24 miles NW of Athens
Population 2,275 (2000)
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History
in a Pecan Shell
The earliest noted settler was William Avant, who arrived around 1835.
The town may have once been named Hog Fork but was renamed to honor
George Tool, storekeeper. A post Tool post office operated for ten
years - starting in 1901. At the end of WWII, the one hundred people
who lived in Tool took advantage of the improved roads and left -
leaving behind only forty people by 1950.
By 1945 Tool had 100 residents and four businesses, but by 1950 its
population had fallen to forty.
In 1965, with the completion of the Cedar Creek Reservoir, the population
increased to 300 and then to 1,700 by 1990.
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