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FASHING, TEXAS

Atascosa County, South Texas
Farm roads 2924 and 99
29 miles SE of Jourdanton
69 miles SE of San Antonio

Population: 50 Est. (2000)

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Fashing, Texas' Fashion Tobacco sign








“The Texas Town Tagged after a Tin of Tobacco.”

TE Photo February 2001
Former names: Hickok, Hindenberg

History in a Pecan Shell


The land around Fashion had been settled as early as the 1850s.

In 1916 the Hickok Ranch was subdivided into farms. The town was first called Hickok after the ranch, then Hindenburg, which necessitated another name change around WWI.

The name comes from a popular brand of tobacco, but it is also similar to the German Fasching – the German Autumn festival season.

The post office, (which closed in 1988) was known as Fashing in 1920.

Fashing did not have electricity until the 1930s, when the population was a mere 25 persons. From 1939 until 1964 it reported 125 residents which seems to be it’s highest point. In 1968 thew population was back down to 90.

In 1972 Fashing was proclaimed the "Grand Champion Rural Community of Texas." Its first school, was built in 1917. A school for Mexicans was opened and the two merged in 1947.

After 1980 the seventh and eighth grades were bused to Karnes City. Primary grades stayed in Fashing until the school closed (1988).

Nearby Peggy, Texas shares a community center with Fashing.

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