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“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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